Author: Mike S.
Date: 03:30:55 02/09/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 23:10:50, Steve wrote: >I recently purchased an AMD Athlon XP processor with 256 MB DDR SDRAM. It >occurs to me that I should probably purchase an engine which can take full >advantage of the increased speed and memory. What would people suggest as the >strongest engine for analysis (not for playing)? I agree to Timothy about the second opinion, and in addition to that, experience shows that you are going to choose between engines of similar strength by the type of position to analyse. For example, in tablebase-near endgame positions I'd prefer Shredder. That (which engines to prefer when) will differ due to individual experiences, impressions and opinions. The Quicktest results reflect the engine's strength for the *combinative* analysis at short analysis time (max. 1 minute per pos.), IOW for tactical situations which are probably the most important part of computer analysis: http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/quick/quicke.htm http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/quick/quickxls.zip I didn't test all current engines, but from those I tested Fritz 7 NoMMX, King 3.12d Sel.10, Nimzo 8 and also Ruffian 1 were among the fastest tacticians (while i.e. Tiger 14 or Shredder 5.32 solved less and/or were a bit slower in that type of positions). A bigger test aimed at analysis strength in three categories (king attack, positional play, endgame) is the CSS Weltmeister-Test with 100 positions: http://www.computerschach.de/test/index.htm Regards, M.Scheidl
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