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Subject: Alternative: Have fun with Winboard!!!!

Author: Peter Ackermann

Date: 12:53:10 06/13/01

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On June 13, 2001 at 06:10:45, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>THE SSDF RATING LIST 2001-06-11   79042 games played by  219 computers
>                                           Rating   +     -  Games   Won  Oppo
>                                           ------  ---   --- -----   ---  ----
>   1 Deep Fritz  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2653   29   -28   647   64%  2551
>   2 Gambit Tiger 2.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz    2650   43   -40   302   67%  2528
>   3 Chess Tiger 14.0 CB 128MB K6-2 450 MHz  2632   43   -40   308   67%  2508
>   4 Fritz 6.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz           2623   23   -23   968   64%  2520
>
>
>The bottom line is always money, in which most buyers will quickly reason that a
>3 rating points doesn't worth $35.00 between Deep Fritz and Rebel 11.
>
>Pichard

It depends a lot about the things you want to do with your chess program. If I
consider that you get Nr.2 and Nr.3 (both tigers!) for half the money (99DM)
than the price of Deep Fritz (199DM) in Germany it seems to be clear that for
owners of single-prozessor-PCs the Tigers are a much better choice.
If I take only the bottom line of money: Why not try Winboard and a lot of
really strong engines (Crafty, Yace, Zchess, Comet, just to name a few of them!)
you can download for no money at all. Just to enjoy playing chess nearly all
winboard-engines will be totally sufficiant....

Regards!

Peter



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