Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:49:45 01/01/01
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On January 01, 2001 at 06:31:44, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On December 31, 2000 at 21:40:29, Alexander Kure wrote: >>Hi Thorsten, >>I would be interested which of the above programs >> >>- use which GUI >>- use tablebases >>- use what opening book > >>I am not sure for example which opening book Crafty will be using. >>Maybe you can create a spreadsheet with the following informations included: >> >>Program GUI Opening book Egtb >>----------------------------------------------------------- >>Nimzo 8 Fritz 6 Nz8Book.ctg Yes >>Crafty 17.4 Fritz 6 ??? Yes >>: > >>I would strongly recommend to let Genius 3 play instead of Genius 6.5. >>From my own experience it is the strongest version. >>As I suggested in a different thread i would like to provide Genius 3 with a >>special opening book so that it has no problems to compete with todays top >>programs ;-) > >Hello Alex ! >Thank you for your comments. >Of course we will make such a spreadsheet, when everything is clear >and fixed. So far this is only a wish-list and things come more and more >precise , but are not 100 % sure. >If you e.g. take crafty, i would like to contact bob and other >crafty-experts themselves and ask them, so that it is OK for THEM. >this all takes time. some people are in holidays. >but it will work in the end. We don't have to be 100% >precise. this is no world-computer-chess-championship. >but i will give my best to make it as accurate as i can. >of course any participants or kibitz has >the right to criticize. its an open tournament. > >>Greetings >>Alex > >to come back to your comments concerning genius: >i have created a new style for genius6.5 that seems to make it significantly >stronger. i want to test if genius is capable to "come back" with a change >of its playing strength. IMO richard threw the thing to early. >the reason genius is weaker is a) it gets outsearched b) its completely >passive playing style. > >the thing with the others outsearching genius can be changed, How can you change it? You are not the programmer. If Genius is outsearched because Richard lang did not work about it I do not see a way to cause it not to be outseareched. I know that Genius3 is a big preprocessor and I guess that it was not changed in the new versions. Uri
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