Author: Chessfun
Date: 10:59:37 06/13/00
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On June 08, 2000 at 15:33:51, Kolss wrote: >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. > Ikarus is an excellent program. There may be a gap to the commercials but in the games I have seen from it, it is a very good program up with most winboard engines. Thanks. > >>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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