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Subject: Re: Strongest winboard-engine?

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 14:26:10 04/23/00

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On April 23, 2000 at 17:20:36, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>Hello Mogens,
>
>I loved your typically Danish flair for understatement about owning a strong
>Danish program :)  Anyway, I am not aware that Gandalf is for sale, yet.  For
>the world of me I can't remember if it was FICS or ICC where I watched Gandalf
>in action and the finger notes said that Gandalf was in development, or
>something to that effect.  No tablebases yet, etc.  From what I saw, I can
>assure you that it was playing wonderful chess and was taking a Crafty clone's
>measure.  On a couple of other occasions I watched it play again and confirmed
>my initial impressions:  probably the strongest WB engine.  I believe that it
>was Dan Wulf operating the program, but cannot remember much else :(
>
>Great to have you on my side when estimating the strength of SOS!
>
>***  Djordje

Hello Djordje,

Always nice to read a polite reply as opposed to my adventures today. I think
that Gandalf participates in the FICS tourney, so I'll have a look and see if
any information is available. Otherwise I could try begging in danish :o).

Best wishes...
Mogens



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