Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:40:43 06/10/02
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On June 08, 2002 at 14:26:02, Scott Gasch wrote: >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 All the professional engines meet this requirement. >2. something that will either play under winboard or run a winboard engine in >its interface ChessMaster and ChessAssistant will do this. Probably many others also. >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 Don't know of any that will do this. But most of them will search a position for you. >4. has a setting that says "only run on this processor" (SetProcessorAffinity) >or is single-threaded only (not "deep"). I don't have any "deep" engines except for the free ones Crafty and Amy. >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. I suggest Chess Assistant. You can pair your program against strong professional programs. You can also use their extensive database to create books. But it is fairly expensive. A second choice would be ChessMaster. I have heard that recent versions of Rebel will work, but I only have older copies.
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