Author: Peter Berger
Date: 08:48:09 04/19/02
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On April 19, 2002 at 11:15:28, Roy Eassa wrote: > >Trying to collect together everything people have posted about this topic and >come to a general conclusion not about the best ONE but maybe the best FIVE: > >* Rebel Decade 3.0 >* YACE (some version of it, maybe 0.99.56?) >* Crafty (some version of it, maybe 18.13?) >* Goliath (some version of it, maybe LG 3.5 and Goliath Light 1.5?) >* Pharaon (some version of it, maybe 2.62?) > >Is this at least the right list of 5? (Please ignore the order.) > > >Is the following program just as strong?: > >* AnMon (some version of it, maybe 5.19?) Rebel Decade 3.0 definitely doesn't belong into the group of the strongest freeware programs anymore (only on Fridays maybe ;) ). Nearly all the other free programs are availlable ( at least also) as WinBoard engines. Probably the most reliable source for their rating availlable currently is http://www.wbholmes.de/elo/eloceleron.txt by Andreas Herrmann Although it is based on blitz games it does seem to correlate well with games at longer time control; only Amyan might be overrated a little IMHO. So this would be: 1. Yace 2. Crafty 3. Pharaon 4. Amyan 5. Little Goliath 6. AnMon 7. Bringer 8. Delfi From the engines that aren't WinBoard compatible only SOS should belong somewhere into this group, too. Two WinBoard engines that look a little underrated and might belong into the top group at longer time controls might be Gromit and Nejmet. Competition is very tough and close at the amateur top - and several newcomers have mixed up the ratinglists a lot recently (especially Delfi comes to mind). Peter
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