Author: Peter Berger
Date: 12:39:00 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 To not repeat GCP: Shredder, Chessmaster8000 ( engine is strong, book maybe not that strong but has huge variety with reasonable quality which is not bad for tests), Nimzo >2. something that will either play under winboard or run a winboard engine in >its interface OK - Rebel Tiger will run the WinBoard engines just as well as Gandalf of course ( same interface) and the ChessBase WinBoard is of similar quality ( so it will run WinBoard engines in a fair way, too). Also TheKing is a WinBoard engine and you could run it in WinBoard if you prefer this interface but only without opening book. >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 Zilch. >4. has a setting that says "only run on this processor" (SetProcessorAffinity) >or is single-threaded only (not "deep"). Already answered. > >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 When it is about current products I think I would choose Rebel 11.0 ( a Tiger package with Rebel Century 4.0 added), Chessmaster 8000 or Gandalf 5.0 ,when it is about your purposes - and probably in exactly this order. Problem with the Gandalf package is that the current version doesn't seem to be _that_ strong, so that it won't spank Monsoon that badly. ChessAssistant might be a good alternative but I know too little about this one. It might be worth the time to wait for Rebel XP and Chessmaster9000 though. Peter
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