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Subject: Re: few more thinks to note...

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 04:09:22 10/09/00

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On October 09, 2000 at 04:46:01, pavel wrote:

>lets not even go to fritz6a, just yet...
>
>IMO gandalf 4.32f is not even 'better' than the,
>"best -freeware- winboard engine"

Yes. It is.

>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.

That's a result limited to your machine, judging from results against posted by
Christian Koch and Frank Quisinsky. Not to mention my own experiences.

>_I_would rate it atleast 50elo less than crafty-yace (assuming they are in same
>level).

It isn't and they're not.

>as jauni said its not a blitz player....TRUE, also its not a standard time
>control player either :( (to the top level)

The small test you posted doesn't really give you any basis for speculation in
that regard. Rather pathetic IMHO.

Mogens.



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