Author: Jouni Uski
Date: 02:02:08 10/09/00
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On October 09, 2000 at 04:46:01, pavel wrote: >On October 09, 2000 at 02:16:49, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>1. Gandalf is not any blitz player. Even if first Nunn match (60/5) against >>Fritz ended 9-11, next try gives 4-16! >>2. Please note, that when You stop/end Gandalf under Chessbase GUI or Winboard >>it sometimes remains in memory taking a lot of CPU power! I have also seen >>same behaviour with Goliath winboard version. For serious testing please reboot >>or check with wintop CPU use... >> >>Jouni > > >lets not even go to fritz6a, just yet... > >IMO gandalf 4.32f is not even 'better' than the, >"best -freeware- winboard engine" > >I can kick myself for buying it only by listening to the reviews of >beta-testers.. :( $30 bucks down the drain. > >I would certainly not recommend anyone to buy it, well, if you want to collect >chess program than thats something else. > >it gets completely smacked-down by nimzo2000b, and top programs like crafty and >yace under winboard. > >_I_would rate it atleast 50elo less than crafty-yace (assuming they are in same >level). > >as jauni said its not a blitz player....TRUE, also its not a standard time >control player either :( (to the top level) > >I have bought so many chess engines, till now, but I have never been so much >dissapointed with a chess programs playing strength as opposed to expectations. > >maybe my expectations were too high, :) > >and finally pls dont insult fritz6a by comparing gandalf to it. >thats the worst thing anyone could do.. > >Pavel After one week testing I cannot give final verdict. But in test suites it is very good. In BT2630 it solves 29/30! In LCTII it gets 2685 rating in my AMD 450MHz!! Hmm... It's probably tuned (may be unintentionally) to that test, to be honest... Jouni
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