Author: Kolss
Date: 12:33:51 06/08/00
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On June 07, 2000 at 18:39:58, Eric Trudel wrote: >On June 07, 2000 at 16:00:38, Kolss wrote: > >>Hi Eric, >> >>Which books were used? This is an important issue. You may have tested book A >>against book B, if the winboard version played with crafty's book and the native >>engine with general-book or junior-book or whatever. >> >>Besides that, I think that most or all engines lose a little using the winboard >>adapter. It may be insignificant for some programs, e.g. LGoliath has been >>optimised for the adapter, I believe. For other programs, the winboard adapter >>is a major handicap, e.g. for our program Ikarus (one of the so-called "young >>talents"), whose entire time management gets mixed up and more. So for us, the >>native interface is a definite win when it comes to playing under the >>ChessbaseGUI. >> >>Regards, Munjong. > >Hi Munjong, >I used the same opening book for both engines, Fritz 6 book. That sounds good and probably gives the results a touch of significance! >I have Ikarus it's a very good chess engine. Just how "young" is Ikarus? Has it >been around for a while? My brother and I started writing Ikarus in January 1997, so it is almost three and a half years old now. However, we (or rather Muntsin) had some programming experience before that, but nothing "serious" had evolved so far. Ikarus is written in Delphi, which I guess is quite unusual for chess programming. I do not think Delphi is much - if any - worse than C++, the compiler is good, and certain things such as graphics actually write themselves... Well, of course the program is heavily under development, there is still a pretty wide gap to the commercials...:-) Regards, Munjong. >You are right that some engines are less infulenced by >the adapter, I guess it depends on the engine itself. >Thanks,
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