Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 02:11:33 09/11/98
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On September 10, 1998 at 17:09:57, Heiko Mikala wrote:
>
>On September 09, 1998 at 20:38:50, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>There was a discussion on freeware that I'd like to revive a little.
>>...
>
>During the last days I did some testing with some of the freely
>available Winboard engines too.
>
>I used Winboard 4.0.0 and all the games were run on a Pentium 200 MMX
>with 64MB RAM.
>
>The tested engines were:
>
> - Comet A90
> - Crafty 15.18
> - Little Goliath V 1.05
> - Phalanx XVII
> - ZChess 0.92
>
(snip)
>ZChess - Crafty 2-12 - 4.5-3.5
>
(snip)
>- ZChess seems to be very strong at longer time controls. It's the
> only engine so far which is able to compete with Crafty in game/60,
> whereas Goliath and Phalanx lost these matches badly (Comet didn't
> play game/60 yet).
> On the other hand ZChess had no chance against Crafty in game/5.
>
>
>Greetings to all of you!
>Have fun!
>
>Heiko.
I bet we are going to hear more and more about ZChess.
Frank Zibi seems to be able to include good (I mean wise) positional knowledge
in his programs. That's maybe why ZChess is better at longer time controls.
In 1996, at the french championship, I have seen one of Franck's programs,
running on a HP calculator (!) drawing against a fast tactical program running
on a Pentium 75!!! If I remember correctly, the HP was running at 2 MHz. It was
programmed in HP's assembly.
Franck was not competing in the championship. In fact the game was initially
meant as a joke. It turned out to be not that funny for the Pentium owner!
Franck Zibi and his program ZChess will be competing in the french championship
on September 25th, 26th and 27th.
We will post here on CCC the results of this championship.
Christophe
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