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Subject: Re: Amen Brother.

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 01:56:18 06/06/01

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On June 05, 2001 at 17:59:31, william penn wrote:

>On June 05, 2001 at 17:51:41, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>Mr. Penn,
>>
>>I agree.  There is not much challenge in Comp-comp except in saying how
>>brilliant the moves are.  We lower players don't have the mental horsepower to
>>play at the grandmaster level.
>>
>>The chess programmers as a group really do put an effort into such things as
>>databases and opening books though.  Ed and Chris have given us very exciting
>>programs.
>>
>>Tim Frohlick
>>
>>On June 05, 2001 at 17:37:58, william penn wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> How many agree? Ed Shroeder is the only programmer out there that is honestly
>>>trying to improve his program for play against humans, everyoneelse just want s
>>>attention and to be number 1 of the ssdf list, which has value, but doesn't
>>>reflect programs strengths against humans. PEOPLE forget the century 1 over a
>>>period of 28 games achieved a fide rating of 2563, and then went on in the next
>>>version to defeat a Expert computer Basher in a six game match, What other
>>>program has achieved such a feat??????????  Who cares about how computers play
>>>against each other.
>
>
>I think Century 3 is way underestimated. It's not that great against other
>computers but man can it play solid positional chess

Have you ever tried Alexander1 versus other programs you might be verry
suprised.
Alexander1 is the same as Alexander with the diference that all valeus of the
pieces stand on 100 again.
You will see that however it runs on less nodes is more tactical then for
instance Junior or Deep Fritz6
It is espacialy nice to replay the games from Alexander1 with Fritz6 or Junior6
in anelyze mode.
strangely enough putting the old emm386 memory line in the config also speeds it
up
It plays on 350.000 to 400.000nps on my machine.(AMD Athlon 800)



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