Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:38:07 06/18/01
Go up one level in this thread
On June 18, 2001 at 06:23:52, Adam Oellermann wrote: >On June 18, 2001 at 06:13:27, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>... any chess engine surpasses DeepFritz / ChessTiger 14 rating by 50 points? >>1, 2, 5, 10 years? Any quesses? Then I will again consider to buy new engines! >>E.g. Junior7 and Shredder5.32 will NOT be any stronger than above-mentioned >>programs - no reason to buy. >> >>Jouni > >It seems to me that there are other reasons to buy a chess engine than raw ELO >score. Certainly, even Gnuchess is more than strong enough to defeat me handily >on my PIII (I guess I might manage 1700 at best); any number of the free >Winboard engines would do. However, I do not use an engine merely for its raw >strength. Some of *my* criteria include playing style, functionality/options, >user interface, coaching, databases etc... I can easily see myself buying an >upgrade to a chess prog with the *exact* *same* engine, just upgraded features, >because they make playing and learning easier or more interesting. > >I must say, if I were a commercial chess program vendor, I would certainly work >on playing strength, but my primary focus would be functionality/features. >Surely, given the incredible strength of modern chess engines on modern >hardware, the marketplace of users requiring *even stronger* engines is really >only the GMs. You are clearly wrong here. The market includes also correspondence players that want to buy a stronger machine in order to beat their opponents. The market includes also other people who play comp-comp games. The market includes cheaters in ICC who want to inflate their rating. I guess that most of the buyers who buy a new engine only because of strength are not GM's and even not IM's. Uri
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.