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Subject: Re: SSDF and the programmers, I resign.......................

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 05:02:52 03/31/98

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On March 21, 1998 at 22:50:38, 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.

Shredder2 has also excellent GUI.


>Playing style in order: CSTal,MChess Pro, Hiarcs, Rebel (I don't have
>Junior yet, or Nimzo, Virtual, etc.).

Junior is a hard fighter!! Amazing!

> 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

Which version of CSTal do you mean/have/use?




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