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Subject: Re: Anyone using the Gromit engine?

Author: pavel

Date: 00:09:24 01/13/02

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On January 13, 2002 at 03:06:21, Frank Schneider wrote:

>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


Are you planning to release the next version as a chessbase engine, or as a
seperate engine, if so when?

I still have the first self GUI free version you made, I really like it a lot.


pavs



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