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Subject: Re: What is concidered the best free suicide chess program?

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 16:28:33 06/23/02

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what is suicide chess? does it mean losing as quickly as possible?

rajenOn June 23, 2002 at 06:24:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On June 23, 2002 at 05:56:06, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>I am looking for a freely available WB compatible suicide engine and would like
>>to know where to get it (spend a couple of hours on google, but there don't seem
>>to be much info on this).
>>Also what WB engine plays the best Wild and or Bughouse, basically all the non
>>standard chess prog“s that you can think of worth mentioning.
>
>For suicide, Sjeng 11.2 without question. If anyone thinks otherwhise,
>you're hereby challenged to a match :)
>
>(there are some non-free ones that are better, though, notably ascp,
>which is just insanely good. It's even so good, that it can't get
>an active rating on FICS because there are no other players remotely
>close it it's strength. Hats off to Ben Nye. But that as an aside.)
>
>Sjeng also plays giveaway and losers. I'm quite sure it's also the
>strongest free engine in those variants. (It's the overall #1 player
>on ICC as well)
>
>Sjeng also plays crazyhouse and bughouse. It no longer is the strongest
>though, that honour goes to SunSetter. You can get SunSetter at d2d4.de,
>and sjeng at sjeng.org
>
>--
>GCP



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