Author: Chessfun
Date: 15:55:07 11/12/01
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On November 12, 2001 at 17:26:58, Roy Eassa wrote: >On November 12, 2001 at 17:23:06, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Nice lists. Thanks! >> >>I notice that variations of Tiger and Fritz occupy the top 4 spots. Add Junior >>and you have the top 9 spots dominated by 3 programmers. Except for Hiarcs at >>#10, Tiger, Fritz, Junior, and Shredder hold the top 19 spots! The two Nimzo's >>are both in the bottom 7, as are Gandalf and all the freeware chess programs (2 >>Crafty's, Yace, Goliath Light). > > >If you had to rank commercial programmers based just on this list, it would be >the author of Tiger first, then the author of Fritz, then Junior, then Hiarcs, >then Shredder. Nimzo and Gandalf would be the last two. This ranking is not >all that surprising to me (except maybe Hiarcs' good showing). Mogens is correct to state that Yace and Gandalf 432_h face a penalty with the use of the CB adapter, this is even more apparent in lightning games. As for Deep Shredder and Shredder 5 while they also use the adapter and clearly it is a penalty, in the list Deep Shredder is only I think about 8 points behind the native Shredder 5.32. Sarah.
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