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

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:39:58 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 18:04:22, Angrim wrote:

>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

Gerbil also has a "loser's" mode.  I run it on ICC now and again in that mode.
The eval is very unsophisticated and a good player can beat it often.

bruce




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