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Subject: Re: What do you consider the best positional program (besides Century 3)?

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 00:30:12 05/04/01

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On May 04, 2001 at 03:03:57, Tony Hedlund wrote:

>On May 03, 2001 at 18:41:05, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 2001 at 18:37:08, John Dahlem wrote:
>>
>>>I had for awhile thought HIARCS 7.32 was considered easily the best, but then I
>>>read a summary from Cadaques 2000 and it seemed to be thought HIARCS was even
>>>somewhat dumb positonally. So, what do you think? HIARCS, Shredder 5, Tiger 14,
>>>Junior 6?
>>
>>According to one test suite:
>>http://home.interact.se/~w100107/fentest.htm
>>
>>These are the top ten:
>>AnMon 5.07 AMD K6-2 450
>>SOS AMD K6-2 450
>>Rebel 10b AMD K6-2 450
>>Nimzo 3 P90
>>Rebel Gambit II AMD K6-2 450
>>Rebel Tiger 14 AMD K6-2 450
>>Nimzo 3.5 P90
>>Hiarcs 7.32 AMD K6-2 450
>>Shredder 4 AMD K6-2 450
>>Phalanx XXII AMD K6-2 450
>
>You can also check this test:
>
>http://home.bip.net/gunnar.blomstrand/topplista_64.htm
>
>This test is from the book "Spiel mit - gegen Grossmeister" by Emil Gelenczei.
>64 games which all are judged. 1047 positions in 8 categories were every group
>gets 400 points. The idea is to see which program is best in analysing human
>games. The time is 40/2 3 min/move. The computer is a Celeron 450 with 128 cache
>and 64 MB.
>
> Program 	 	Rating 	Points
>01 Gandalf 4.32f   	2617 	2120
>02 Fritz 5.0 	   	2591 	2099
>03 Gambit Tiger 1	2590 	2098
>04 Fritz 6.0 	   	2585 	2094
>05 Junior 5.0 	   	2571 	2083
>06 Rebel 10 	   	2561 	2075
>07 Nimzo 2000 	   	2560 	2074
>08 Chess Tiger 13  	2540 	2058
>09 Zarkov 5.0 	     	2536 	2055
>10 Genius 6.5 	   	2529 	2049
>
>As you can see, the Rebel/Tiger programs is on both lists.
>
>Tony

Very nice Tony. Can these positions be downloaded?

Finally something else than tactical positions.

Ed



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