Author: Daniel Kang
Date: 15:23:25 11/18/00
Hi everyone. I was just thinking about hacking into the source code of GNU Chess but wanted to judge its strength beforehand. I'm running a 50-game match against crafty 17.6 at 5 minutes per game with pondering off (on a single CPU, granted, a bit short) and it has now scored one draw in 38 games, losing all others. I deliberately widened Crafty's opening book usage (width 10) to make it fair for GNU Chess, for which I have no opening book. From what I've seen, this seems to have neutralized Crafty's opening book advantage, as it seems to come out of the opening badly almost as often as GNU Chess does. There were some near-duplicate games, but I've seen enough unique games to come to a conclusion that GNU Chess is being completely outclassed. Is it really this bad or am I just somehow using a weak version? I didn't expect it to match Crafty, but barely managing one draw in 38 games was somewhat disappointing. Thanks. Dan.
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