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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:09:05 04/21/00

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On April 20, 2000 at 18:32:35, Bryan A. Bybee wrote:

>I refuse to hash this out with "you", Peter, in the CCC forum.  Again your
>"don't confuse me with the facts" attitude is quite apparent.  Read _ALL_ the
>messages and then, perhaps, reply (if you must.)
>
>Dr. Hyatt asked specifically about Xeref, a program that he's seen running on
>both chess.net, and for a _limited_ (and fully documented time) on FICS under
>the EvilSilicon account.

[...]

>----
>*-> Shredder3.0 as well as a very
>*-> highly modified crafty v17 series called Xeref, is responsible for the
>*-> standard and blitz ratings above (for the most part.)  EvilSilicon is an
>*-> engine that plays decently in short blitz (but manages to lose most blitz
>*-> games against top competition) but is rather strong in lightning.
>----
>

Ok, so you are effectively using 3 engines:

a) Shredder 3
b) Xeref, a crafty clone
c) your own engine EvilSilicon

Right ? I'm trying to make some sense out of this...

--
GCP



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