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Subject: Re: New breed of unknown(?!) strong engines on icc/fics.

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 12:44:00 04/18/00

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On April 18, 2000 at 15:01:50, Andrew Dados wrote:

>Here are two I am puzzled about:
>
>Information about Margarita(C) (Last disconnected Tue Apr 18 2000 13:07):
>
>          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>Wild        2363  [5]     1     0     0     1
>Bullet      2665  [1]     7     0     0     7
>Blitz       2843         33    11    23    67   2862 (18-Apr-2000)
>
> 1: Myth vs.1.13 SE
> 2: PIII 700 Mhz 128 Mb ram
>
>--------------------------------
>
>Statistics for EvilSilicon(C)   (Last disconnected Tue Apr 18, 06:38 2000):
>
>          rating     RD      win    loss    draw   total   best
>Blitz      2533     44.2      51      33      37     121   2542 (01-Apr-2000)
>Standard   2502     78.3      12       4      12      28   2502 (15-Apr-2000)
>Lightning  2680     32.8     148      73     120     341   2695 (28-Mar-2000)
>Wild       ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>Bughouse   ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>Crazyhouse ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>Suicide    ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>
>
> 1: Temporarily running SHREDDER 3.0 - Disregard notes 2, 4, 5 & 6!
> 2: Engine is a combined effort of 3 programmers (work in progress 3 years!)
> 3: If any other engine is temporarily used, NOTE 1 will reflect this.  Please
> check NOTE 1 often.  Shredder and other engines are used at times.
> 4: Our engine is not based on any other freeware or commercial chess package.
> Please email bryanb@bytes.net with any problems or suggestions.
>HARDWARE:  Pentium III 600e overclocked to 800mhz on ASUS Motherboard.
> 5: We readily admit that often our wins are due to the amount of horsepower
>behind the engine rather than simply engine strength itself.  There have    been
>accusations of late that we are trying to mislead people in regards    to which
>engine is used.
> 6: This engine is by no means a NEWLY developed project.  It is accomplished
>in the spare time of 3 people, which means progress can be slow.  It is,
>however, new to the ICS world.  Again, please check NOTE 1 often for the
>current engine operated.
>
> [snipped irrelevant notes]
>-------------------------------
>
>Also mysterious Remus mentioned by James in the other post...
>
>Bad news is you can configure Tiger, Shredder, or make a nice Crafty clone which
>will not whisper/kibitz any info about itself... hard to believe something that
>strong and unknown suddenly appeares.... and if 3 unknown, strong engines popup
>out of nowhere....
>
>(the above are just my doubts :)
>
>Any info on those really appreciated.
>
>-Andrew-

I have no info, but I routinely noplay all such accounts.

Will




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