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Subject: Re: What are the best freely available "losers" or "suicide" chess engines?

Author: Angrim

Date: 15:04:22 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 15:10:09, Anson T J wrote:

>List them please along with a link for download. Are any SMP (mutliprocessor)
>capable?
>
>Thx in advance.

Giveaway Wizard
  windows only, no longer supported due to death of author.
  this engine has the best positional understanding of any
  freely available engine, but is comparatively weak at tactics.
  http://www.chessvariants.com/programs.dir/giveaway.zip
Sjeng 11.2 (newer versions of sjeng do not support suicide)
  windows, linux, no longer supported because author decided to
  simplify the program while making it stronger at "chess" and
  removed suicide from version 12+
  www.sjeng.org
OliThink
  linux/unix, likely works on windows.
  might be supported, but the author avoids fics so I don't know.
  I just checked and couldn't even find a copy of the engine.

No suicide engines that I know of are SMP capable.
Currently suicide engines are at the point where it is more useful
to spend a day working on the eval or on search extensions than
to spend that time adding SMP support.

Angrim



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