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Subject: Re: Buying an engine

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:36:28 06/08/02

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On June 08, 2002 at 14:26:02, Scott Gasch wrote:

>1. an engine that is strong with a good default opening book

Any professional engine will be strong. I think Fritz and
Rebel Tiger have the best books.

>2. something that will either play under winboard or run a winboard engine in
>its interface

Gandalf is the only one I know to run under WinBoard. The Rebel
products (Tiger, Rebel XP and Gandalf) have decent WinBoard support
in their interfaces. The WinBoard support of the ChessBase products
is crippled.

>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

No engine I know of has this. (IMHO very unfortunate)

>4. has a setting that says "only run on this processor" (SetProcessorAffinity)
>or is single-threaded only (not "deep").

Most Deep engines can run single-threaded as well.

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GCP



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