Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 00:06:21 01/13/02
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On January 13, 2002 at 02:58:26, Peter Ackermann wrote: >On January 12, 2002 at 22:55:40, Jonathan Parle wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I run the Fritz 6 interface and am looking to purchase an engine which is highly >>positional and which analysis very few nodes. I noticed the Chessbase site >>mentions Gromit and I'm wondering whether this engine fits the bill. I basically >>want the "slowest" engine I can find, but one that takes into account a lot of >>strategical and positional factors when performing evaluations. Playing strength >>is not important, I'd be happy with about 2200 ELO. This would be on a Pentium >>III 866 with 256Mb RAM. If anyone else has other suggestions, please let me >>know. Thanks. > >Hi Jonathan! > >Gromit is not the slowest engine if you look for nps. (Hiarcs 7.32 seems to be >slowest). Anyway Gromit is really worth seeing. Gromit knows a lot about >strategic ideas but nevertheless is not bad if you consider tactical play. An >improved version became amateur world champion last year so the engine is well >above your required playing strength. >So for your purposes I would choose between Hiarcs 7.32 and Gromit. > >Peter Hi Jonathan, Gromit is now available for the Pocket PC as "PocketGrandmaster" http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com/ On my iPAQ it searches about 4-7 thousand nodes per second - slow enough? ;-) However, I'm not sure if it is below 2200 Elo... The version chessbase sells is an old 3.1 (althought they advertised it as the "Amateur World Champion 2001" for some time), versions after 3.8.2 are significantly stronger. Frank
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