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Subject: Re: Well is agree must be a bug! MY results have been great for GANDALF5.0

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 08:28:52 01/21/02

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On January 20, 2002 at 22:08:10, robert flesher wrote:

>People can say who is this guy! Well ill accept any responses posted. BUT! I
>have been a very huge computer chess fan for over 15 years!. I am a strong
>player according to ICC rated 2150-2200. I have a good friend and also
>Master(postal GM), who i take lessons from once a week .Bob has  also has
>observed my matches.He agrees that Gandalf playe incredible chess. Say what you
>like, I say people are TO DAMNM LAZY, Get rid of AUTO 232, ERT and whatever
>other winboard interfaces. Play one Comp VS another Comp. Has anyone ever
>noticed that Shredder always seems to win World championship, yet never has a
>rating that reflects this by SSDF. ???????????? i wonder why?? Simple logic, or
>so it would seem. Carve me!! Say what you like. This is my opinion, and that is
>how i feel. Gandalf 5.0 is as strong as any other easy, and maybe a tad
>stronger.

Sorry Robert but your argument does not make sense.  Of course Gandalf 5 is a
strong program.  There is no argument there.  But relative to Fritz 7 or Chess
Tiger it is about 100 points weaker maybe more.  This means it still should
handle any 2200 player with ease.  As for being lazy, my computers played over
8,000 games last year using auto232.  YOU try doing that manually.  And the
final LOGIC question....   Why is it that Chess Tiger plays at least equal or
better than Fritz 7 when running them using auto232 and Gandalf 5 gets killed by
both?  This when Chess Tiger is running in the exact same GUI and using the
exact same auto232.  The only difference is changing the engines.  Using auto232
as the scapegoat for poor program performance is nonsense.  Besides, being 100
points below the top programs is not really all that poor.  It's just
disappointing in a new program that was expected to do much better.
Jim



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