Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:56:45 11/26/01
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On November 26, 2001 at 13:26:56, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On November 26, 2001 at 12:43:55, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On November 26, 2001 at 12:40:30, Benny Antonsson wrote: >> >>>On November 26, 2001 at 11:47:41, Sally Weltrop wrote: >>> >>>>On November 26, 2001 at 11:36:19, Bas Hamstra wrote: >>>> >>>>>I thought it was only an old program, no longer under development. But no, it is >>>>>alive and kicking, playing at FICS currently, operated by D. Kittinger himself. >>>>>And at only a lowly PIII-300 it plays very nice attacking chess. Strong program! >>>>>Anybody knows if it still uses singular extensions? >>>> >>>>what's the handle over there on FIC of WChess? >>> >>>The handle is: WChessX >>> >>>Statistics for WChessX(C) On for: 14 hrs, 29 mins Idle: 4 hrs, 8 mins >>> >>> rating RD win loss draw total best >>>Blitz 2329 38.7 169 171 85 425 2442 (11-Aug-2001) >>>Standard 2314 59.2 20 24 14 58 2320 (22-Nov-2001) >>>Lightning 2442 85.0 12 16 10 38 >>>Wild ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0 >>>Bughouse ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0 >>>Crazyhouse ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0 >>>Suicide ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0 >>> >>> >>>Timeseal : On >>> >>> 1: WChessX running on 300mhz AMD K6 >>> 2: Operator is author Dave Kittinger >>> 3: Generally unattended >>> 4: Has draw accept/reject logic, but not real easy to achieve. >>> 5: Large learned opening book. >>> 6: 3 and 4 piece endgames >> >>It is clear that he has been improving the program, then. Tablebase files are a >>new development (comparatively speaking). > > >What is the current Gambit Tiger Chess rating at FICS, and what would Wchess >rating be if Mr Kittinger would be using an Athlon 1.4 MHz instead.? And how many angels could dance on the head of a pin? ;-) You should (in theory) add about 200 ELO, but with such a big leap, I doubt very much that you can trust it. Especially since many programs do not scale linearly with CPU speed.
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