Author: paul bedrey
Date: 09:19:13 06/06/01
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On June 06, 2001 at 04:56:18, Marc van Hal wrote: >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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