Author: pete
Date: 13:34:55 03/30/00
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On March 30, 2000 at 13:36:56, ujecrh wrote: > >It is surprising to see that different people can get a really different feeling >about a given program (no blame, it is probably very difficult to evaluate >positional understanding of an engine). For instance, look at the two following >summaries: > >---------------- >from WCCC pages: >SOS >Rudolf Huber >SOS is a program which focuses on calculating speed rather than programmed >chess knowledge. Since its author is not a chess player, the strength of the >program has to come from its speed to calculate the variations. Up to now SOS >has never won against a program which calculates faster, however there are not >too many of them. Still, the author believes that the above mentioned apprach to >computer chess delivers the best playing strength per programming effort ratio. >---------------- >from Franks's chess pages: >SOS plays a very positional and agressive chess game, which makes it an >interesting new addition to the winboard engines. The comprehensive amount of >chessknowledge is used efficiently. In games at tournament time control it can >beat anyone. A new favourite of mine. >---------------- > >Maybe it was two slightly different versions but it is still surprising. I used >to think that the main gap between commercial chess engines and amateur ones was >the amount of chess knowledge put into it (with some exception among commercial >engines that are known as really fast searchers). Is that still true or is there >any amateur engine that contains heavy chess knowledge ? > >Ujecrh I think you are right that most _availlable_ amateur engines don't focus on chess knowledge that much although this imho is not the major reason why they are weaker than the commercials though . try Gromit 2.20 though ( I am not sure about the exact version ; the last one with a 2 in front ) ; you might be really surprised ... For me it is still the most interesting amateur program around . pete
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