Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 10:52:57 05/03/01
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On May 03, 2001 at 11:10:51, Bertil Eklund wrote: >It wasn't time to play around and invite 200 programs. Noone said you had to send 200 invitations. Send them to the authors with known SMP programs and publish an invitation in various fora with an interest in computer chess. Not a big deal and certainly not comparable to playing around. There's a significant likelihood that only a few extra programs would participate. But you would have made the effort, which is important IMO. >Instead you can check the >results from the SSDF-list, tournaments from a lot of people and so on. The SSDF list only have one SMP entry and it's far from complete, so that doesn't work. And the same applies to private tournaments with identical irrelevant entries. That leaves ICCA and human-comp tournaments. >Therefore it is quite easy to see that the four best (comp-comp) programs are >Fritz, Junior, Shredder and Tiger(s). Here you're talking about commercial and mostly non-SMP version or single cpu results. >Which programs are better then the above? Give me five, so can we see how many >that agrees with you. You can't decide which programs are better than the ones above without conducting matches and neither can I. Nor do I know about all SMP chess programs in the world. I only know of some of the ICCA programs, ie. Crafty, Diep, Patzer, Ferret, Zugzwang and PConners. Whether anyone of them would compete or be capable of competing doesn't really matter. Furthermore, I think it's naive to imagine that only Christophe Theron is, or have been, experimenting (succesfully) with SMP. Regards, Mogens
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