Author: Ian Aston
Date: 16:02:50 11/21/01
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On November 21, 2001 at 18:03:21, Mike S. wrote: >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; Yes, very advanced indeed unless you speak Austrian. AFAIK, the documentation is only available in the Austrian language. IA 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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