Author: Mike S.
Date: 15:03:21 11/21/01
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On November 21, 2001 at 16:29:56, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On November 21, 2001 at 16:01:12, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On November 21, 2001 at 10:20:06, Marcus Kaestner wrote: >>>http://mitglied.tripod.de/ChessBits/index.html >> >>According to this list, these are the strongest 10 single-CPU programs: >> >>1 Gambit Tiger 2 agg. 2735 >>2 Tiger 14 2726 >>3 Gambit Tiger 2 2715 >>(...) >The only sensible thing you can read from the list is the strength of the >Tigers, which isn't a novelty. The collection of strange settings, different >hardware and timecontrol makes the list worthless. Unless you want a good laugh >and who doesn't? So yet another fun rating list. I don't think the list is worthless. IIRC, the hardware used isn't extremely different but in a reasonable bandwidth. And when programs and engines offer adjustable settings for people who like to experiment and to tune, why not include them in a rating list? I understand the critizism for combining results from different time controls, which is unusal to do... I assume that's just their way of offering a single complete list to the public. An "overall" list so to speak. There are some programs listed I don't know what they are exactly (i.e. Explorer or Challenger, I think these are Shredder 5 settings), but here I assume ChessBits readers will know more about those. Expecially interesting is that y13 engine, which seems to be a result of using that Che++ Nimzo language. This is something which was introduced with Nimzo 3. A kind of customizing chess language (similar to a programming language) with tremendous potential IMO. But it was more for the (very) advanced user; I didn't hear much about it except in the reviews after the release. So I think it's good that at least one of these creations appear in a rating list somewhere. Regards, M.Scheidl
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