Author: Peter Berger
Date: 15:53:43 05/02/02
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On May 02, 2002 at 15:54:03, Christophe Theron wrote: >I have not tried Yace myself, but I hear that it is a tactical monster with an >incredible NPS... So I thought that CT for Palm would have lots of trouble >against it... > No, that _really_ isn't Yace at all( did you mix it up with Little Goliath ?!) . Yace is sceptical searcher, conservative evaluator, not much pruner , endgame ruler ( on faster CPU). It probably is the strongest amateur engine currently ( various WinBoard list would support this). How does it play chess? This one is closer to the truth I think : http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?227390 The second game against Hiarcs is Yace style to the extreme IMHO and shows its weirding ways well . ( Oh, did you already guess that I like this engine very much ;) ?) > > > >>I think I should add a calibration partner to the "contest" soon - this one >>looks quite useful: >> >>82 Genius 4.0 DOS 486/50-66 MHz 2266 23 -23 900 49% 2270 > > >CT for Palm will simply get slaughtered by this one. Try it and you will find >yourself stopping the match after just a few games. :-( > Yes, looks like ( 0.0-3.0 with Tiger completely chanceless so far). > > >>In fact I was much impressed by Comet B42's play in the 20 games against the >>Tiger so far - it might well be simply much stronger than expected on this slow >>hardware. Yace felt weaker in comparison in its match. >> >>Lots of guesswork - don't slaugter me, lady and guys :). > > >No problem, your tests are interesting! > At least they are much fun which is enough for me :) Peter
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