Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 11:21:36 11/05/01
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Hi Christophe, >:) :) :) >Anyway, the general audience will believe what the press says. >And the press definitely HAS tomatoes in its eyes. Yes and only the fans from commercial GUI x or y or program x or y have an other opinion. I hope that people are not blind and see all points to this theme. >Fritz is strong, and it does not need to win tournaments. Tournaments are random >events. > >The 3 or 4 top programs (as tested by the SSDF) are so close in strength that it >is impossible to say which one is the best anyway. Yes this is absolute right. Maybe for longer time controls are Tiger, Shredder, Gandalf and Junior (Junior with ?, I am not sure) better then Fritz. But the hardware is too slow. I believe with the actual hardware and 40 moves in 120 minutes are Tiger, Shredder, Junior and Fritz are playing on the same level. Maybe Gandalf in version 5, at the moment is Gandalf with Hiarcs and Nimzo on the same level. Not for longer time controls, here I know that Gandalf is clearly stronger. >But that was last year's generation. We will see what happens with the new >generation (Junior 7, Fritz 7 and Tiger 15). Yes, we will see! Do you think that you can make your program 30-50 ELO better without faster hardware. I think after 2.600 ELO is this very very hard and maybe not possible. I mean 50 ELO more for an engine with 2.600 ELO, I cann't know this, also I cann't know this that Gandalf is 50 ELO stronger with the aggressive playing style. I think in different endgames Tiger have problems, so it is possible if you make here changes that Tiger is 30 or more ELO better. Your program is very interesting, the evaluation is critical positions is very good. If Tiger say -1 or +1 then it is in 90% the right evaluation. Other top programs have here problems so for me the evaluation from Tiger is very good. Best Frank
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