Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:35:36 09/07/99
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On September 07, 1999 at 14:58:10, Peter Skinner wrote: >I was wondering what is the strongest chess program on the market including >freeware engines. I include freeware engines because the like of Comet and >Crafty are getting right up there, and beat Fritz often now. So what is the >strongest program, I have shredder and sure it is good, but it seems to play for >2 many draws. See the SSDF for engine/engine match results. Some question the integrity of these games. I do not. There is another organization that throws in human matches (can't remember the URL and am too lazy to look for it). If you are really curious about strength, I would hunt for it. It's in England somewhere, IIRC. Any of the top ten programs will kick the rear of 99.999% of all chess players. Crafty is probably the strongest freeware program. On standard hardware, it is probably not quite as strong as the top commercial programs, but it's not far off. With multiple CPU's it may be stronger than any of them (but maybe not too -- who knows?) Strength alone will probably not be enough to determine your enjoyment. Each chess program has nice things about it besides strength. Database features, analysis features, etc. I'd read some reviews if I were thinking of buying another chess program and was not sure which one to pick.
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