Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:01:17 09/10/05
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On September 10, 2005 at 00:01:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 09, 2005 at 23:48:47, Tanya Deborah wrote: > >>On September 09, 2005 at 17:30:59, Peter Berger wrote: >> >>>On September 09, 2005 at 16:16:28, Peter Kappler wrote: >> >> >>Hi to all! >> >> I dont understand why people here are so surprised that Zappa won the >>Computer Chess Championship. >> >>Of course, Zappa 2.0 is a very strong program, much more than the first >>version(1.0 that it is free) but now, i think that the SSdf needs to test Zappa, >>to know exactly how strong is this program (in many long games matches) against >>the best programs. >> >>Speaking about the strengh of the programs, The SSDF results are much more real >>than any other tournament in the world (equal hardware + Much,much more games, >>etc). We have to wait and see if Zappa can play 400-500 games, and has a better >>performance than Shredder 9, also if Zappa can beat the strongest program >>Shredder 9 of the first place, to say that Zappa is the clear #1 in the world. >> >>Of course to win the World Chess Championship is a very great result for any >>programmer, and i want to congratulate his author for this amazing performance, >>but also I would hope that SSDF can test Zappa 2.0 against all the other >>programs for have a better result about the real strengh of this strong program. >> >>SSDF results are by far, much more realistic. >> >>Regards! >> Tanya Deborah > >I suspect that Zappa 2 is about equal to Shredder on equal hardware and that >Fruit is somewhat stronger. We do not know if we will be able to get that Fruit in the near future by buying it or downloading it when Zappa2 is going to be commercial in the near future so from the point of the customer there is only Fruit2.1. Uri
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