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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