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Subject: Re: Yace 0.99.56 still the strongest amateur engine!? (Crafty 9.)

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 23:41:20 09/06/02

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On September 07, 2002 at 00:34:52, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 23:36:05, Aaron Tay wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2002 at 15:31:09, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On September 06, 2002 at 05:05:54, Aaron Tay wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 06, 2002 at 04:34:35, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 05, 2002 at 21:42:39, Aaron Tay wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On September 05, 2002 at 16:15:36, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>>>
>> >>That's  impressive ..But about on-par with other strong privateware like
>>>>Chester (2716, Athlon 1.2 Ghz) ,Searcher (2858, Athlon 1.4 Ghz),Monsoon (2717,
>>>>Athlon 1.533 Ghz), Insomanic (2887, Athlon 1.2 Ghz), Zarkov (2898, 2 machines)
>>>>,Ferret (2974, 2x1.2 Ghz)...
>>>>
>>>>So it does belong to the class of strongest engines...
>>>>
>>>>I have a list of strong privateware handles at
>>>>http://www.chesskit.com/aarontay/Winboard/privateware.html
>>>>for easy reference...
>>>>
>> >>========================================================================
>>>>
>>>>Aaron
>>>
>>>Hi Aaron,
>>>        Thanks for the link, interesting page.
>>>
>>>>Do you think any of these "privateware" programs are clones of existing
>>>programs?
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>Hard to say, given that few people have them. Still most are my list
>>are pretty well established Chess engines with authors that are well known to
>>CCC , so IMHO it's quite unlikely they are clones.
>>
>>Aaron
>
>
>Strictly based on observation and without proof - I suspect Chesterx by Steve
>Timson is a clone - it's too good -

Well there are better ones on my list though.

>but I don't know Steve and he may be legit.
>If anybody knows first hand this is not the case, I stand corrected.

IT took part in various CCT 3(?). This is where i got the name from.Do a CCC
search and you will also see some posts by him. Monsoon,Chester and Searcher are
associated in my mind because they are 3 very strong privateware that was
"discovered" (by me anyway) during CCTs...

>Most of the others I recognized and I'm fairly confident they are not running
>clones.



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