Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 00:17:47 01/13/02
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On January 13, 2002 at 03:09:24, pavel wrote: >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? We'd like to release it as a chessbase-engine, but currently their interface is not open and we are not allowed to release Gromit with a chessbase interface. We think about making an UCI-version but I can't promise and I can't give a date. > >I still have the first self GUI free version you made, I really like it a lot. Thanks! Frank > > >pavs
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