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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