Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 19:50:38 03/21/98
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On March 20, 1998 at 05:52:53, Harald Faber wrote: >On March 20, 1998 at 01:37:33, Keith Ian Price wrote: > >>I also agree with your position. I think programmers spend too much time >>improving their programs for the SSDF, instead of for humans. > >Remember that SSDF also supports sales which is important for commercial >programmers! They cannot dare leaving this aspect out. > >>I don't pay much attention to the SSDF results, since all the top >>programs are so close, it really makes no difference. > >Right, the only important reasons are now features and playing style. >Features is in favour of Fritz and Rebel, playing style is preferably >Hiarcs, MChessPro, Junior and Rebel (for me personally in this order! no >eval of strength!). For me: Features: Fritz (great except no autoplayer) and Chess Genius5 (best TASC Smartboard support). No DOS program will ever make my features list. Playing style in order: CSTal,MChess Pro, Hiarcs, Rebel (I don't have Junior yet, or Nimzo, Virtual, etc.). Obviously not in order of strength, but CSTal will improve more dramatically with faster hardware than the others I believe. Particularly a faster and larger cache, as its hashtable accesses are much fewer than other programs. kp
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