Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 01:53:44 11/25/00
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Dear Martin, I have your program and I have renamed it: FierzChek. It is indeed a very strong program. It is a bit unstable on Win 95 but it usually has won long before any crashes. Do you have plans for a for-profit commercial release? Tim Frohlick On November 25, 2000 at 04:43:34, martin fierz wrote: > >the triplejump website claims to review 'ALL' available draughts programs, but >there are two points about the list: > >1) these are not reviews. what they write is just what they read on the websites >of these programs. no original input. more like a commercial break... >i've really looked at a lot of these programs, and i often disagree with their >ratings. >2) the strongest free program is NOT on the list - incidentally, it's mine :-) >it's called checkerboard, and you can download it on http://www.fierz.ch/checkers.htm >checkers programs are much better than chess programs if you compare them to the >best humans. two reasons: they can search much deeper because of the low >effective branching factor of about 2 per ply, and there are 'better' endgame >databases available for checkers (schaeffer is giving away his 6-piece database. >not the 7- or 8-piece db though). 'better' because nearly ALL checkers games >between strong opponents end up in such endgames, while in chess you mostly do >NOT end up in the tablebases. >on a technical level i am pretty sure that chess programs are much better than >checkers programs. there is no championship in checkers which would make people >more competitive, too little programs on the market, and not much money to make. >my program is one of the strongest, and i don't use any special tricks and i'm >neither a programming wizard nor a checkers expert. i just did checkers because >it's much easier to program than chess :-) > >cheers > martin
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