Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:12:37 08/26/02
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On August 26, 2002 at 12:34:13, Tony Hedlund wrote: >On August 26, 2002 at 11:13:53, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On August 26, 2002 at 10:31:37, Tony Hedlund wrote: >> >>>>But Gromit belongs in neither category - it isn't availlable at all but it is >>>>privateware. >>> >>>It's on the Young Talents CD. And the testing is to decide if it's a top engine, >>>isn't it? >> >>The Gromit version on the Young Talents CD is 3.1, not tested by you and very >>much outdated ( in the meantime the authors have released a much more current >>freeware version 3.8.2(availlable on http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com)). The >>Gromit authors explicitly stated that there are currently no plans to make their >>current version availlable to the public. >> >>That's the reason why I was surprised by your decision to test it for SSDF list >>when for example the probably strongest and availlable amateur program Yace >>hasn't been tested yet. > >If it hasn't been tested, how can you say that it's "probably the strongest"? >;-) > >Tony > If it was tested by SSDF and I knew the result I could simply claim that it is the strongest or not which I didn't. As it isn't I look at other testresults to form an opinion. To quote a few recent ones: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/his1stdiv.html http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/1stDiv.html http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/33395.htm I think this is enough data to not let my opinion about its probable strength look too silly. My personal impression about Yace is that its positional and book learning is effective against aggressive learners and that it profits from longer timecontrols but I don't have enough data to really know. This is all assuming that your question was serious of course ... If it wasn't - nevermind. Peter
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