Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 01:37:05 07/14/00
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Hi Peter, If you follow this discussion board a bit close (and you do :) you will see numerous people playing numerous tournaments and games with all kinds of software included on all kinds of hardware. I must say that names like Hiarcs, Junior and Fritz surface quite often as "won my tournament", and don't forget Shredder and the like. But I never saw any conclusive proof that one of the engines is clearly behind or better than the others. It seems time controls (blitz, tournament, analysis), hardware (RAM, processor speed, type of processor, HD, HD speed motherboard), used openings books (own, tuned, standard), computer software setup (windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, which SR or SP) and opening book randomness (which opening, what games used for the opening book) and engine parameters of the chess program, are providing us with too many factors to give an objective assessment of "real" strenght, whatever that may be. To be honest: I think your question have little value, or better: the answer to your question (including this one :)). I don't mean that rude, and please feel free to ask it, but my point is that in *my* opinion it is far more important to add the reason why someone is using that particular software. It's a bit like asking: which program is better: WordPerfect or Word? I think you can start a new message board centered around that question without ever coming to a conclusion. But if you ask "which one is better for use with html", or "which one is more compatible with program a or b", you will maybe get a sensible answer. What is it someone wants with chess software? - training - long analysis of grandmaster games - on the fly analysis ofg own online blitz games - play blitz games against it - play long games on handicap level - play endgame situations - use database facilities - play engine vs engine tournaments or one or two machines - play test suites - ..... blah blah..... Unless this is specified, I think you won't get a very precise answer on the question: "which chess program is stronger than the other?". But... we can always try. No, we will. :) Jeroen ;-} jimvandorp@wxs.nl http://zip.to/jeroen
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