Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 11:26:02 06/08/02
One of the things I'm interested in doing to improve my own engine is to play it against a professional engine at home. Until now the only experience it has had with commercial engines is the pros it runs across on ICC. The problem is I don't know anything about pro engines. Which are "interfaces" and which are engines? Some are chess databases, right? Here's what I'm ideally looking for: 1. an engine that is strong with a good default opening book 2. something that will either play under winboard or run a winboard engine in its interface 3. something that has a static eval command built in... so I can setup a board position and see what the pro engine thinks about it without searching 4. has a setting that says "only run on this processor" (SetProcessorAffinity) or is single-threaded only (not "deep"). I don't want to learn the nullmodem-cable trick or mess with UCI. I have a dual proc machine and will just let them each have one processor. I'd appreciate any advice from you guys who know a lot about the pros. The only pro chess engine I have ever owned was chessmaster 2000 about 10 years ago or something. Bear in mind that my only goal with this is to improve my own engine. Thanks, Scott
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