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Subject: Re: Testgames with Gandalf 4.32f

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 18:52:20 09/10/00

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On September 10, 2000 at 18:56:01, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On September 10, 2000 at 18:45:07, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>Gandalf is not smp. And yes I expected Gandalf to do better as well.
>
>At least Christian has the integrity not to hide the results or invent a lot of
>excuses on Gandalf's behalf. Not exactly the picture we see when Crafty is being
>severely beaten by a commercial program.
>
>And yes, I had hoped for a better result as well, but chess is chess and Crafty
>isn't exactly a weak program. Win or lose, I like the way it plays chess.
>
>Mogens.

Oh I agree fully. I just expected Gandalf to do a bit better. Close series, and
still good results... I also agree Crafty is not a weak program, that was not my
intention to be relayed. I was just surprised by the result.

But in any case, Gandalf does have problems with Crafty, and Fritz 6. It handles
everything else pretty reasonably.



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