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Subject: Re: Strongest Chess program in the world

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:55:02 11/18/02

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On November 19, 2002 at 01:53:05, stuart taylor wrote:

>On November 18, 2002 at 15:13:14, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On November 18, 2002 at 08:22:55, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
>>
>>>So what is exactly the strongest chess program in the world? Some say it's Deep
>>>Fritz 7, some say it's Deep Junior and others claim that it's Chessmaster9000 or
>>>Chess Tiger 15.0. I am very confused about this and i am hesitating on buying
>>>any of them because i want to buy the very best or at least the top two.
>>
>>
>>On a single CPU, these are all very strong and it is VERY arguable which is
>>best:
>>
>>Chess Tiger 15
>>Deep Fritz 7 (and Fritz 7) (Fritz 8 is coming soon and should be stronger)
>>Shredder 6.02 (version 7 is coming soon and should be stronger)
>>Deep Junior 7 (and Junior 7)
>>Chessmaster 9000 Utzinger
>>Hiarcs 8.0 (probably not the strongest, but very strong nonetheless)
>>Rebel XP
>>
>>You'd probably have to play many (many!) hundreds of games under carefully
>>controlled conditions to know which is the strongest in computer-computer
>>matches.  And it would be even harder to ascertain which is strongest against
>>humans!
>>
>>Once Fritz 8 and Shredder 7 are out, those two plus Tiger 15 will probably be
>>the top 3.
>
>Why not CM9K Utzinger?
>
>And, might not Junior 8 top all of them, not long after?

Or even Ruffian.

Fact is, we don't know.  But we do know this:
The strongest chess programs are pretty darn strong.  Probably [cough] GM
strength.
;-)



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