Author: Cliff Sears
Date: 09:03:48 04/02/03
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On April 02, 2003 at 06:21:45, Steve Maughan wrote:
>Does anyone know anything about this engine? Strength, history etc
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve
NEW "FREEBIE" ENGINE FROM CHESSBASE
There's a new (free!) downloadable engine for use in ChessBase and Fritz on the
ChessBase GmbH website. It's called Koenig Schwarz ("Black King"? -- I dunno, my
German isn't very good. I also Anglicized the name, so please don't send
corrective e-mails) and you can download it here. It comes unzipped so, if
you've installed ChessBase8 or one of our playing programs to the default
folder, you can just download the engine right into your C:\Program
Files\ChessBase\Engines folder.
Note that this engine is extremely weak; it moves instantaneously and displays a
search depth of 0 plies. "What good is it?" you might ask. It's good for little
kids, for one thing (yes, some of us have small ones at home that love to mess
around in the Fritz program) or for adult novices. Also, I rather suspect that
it's been made available for Windows XP users who can no longer use the older
16-bit engines on their machines (16-bit vs. 32-bit architecture, yah-dah
yah-dah, rant rant rant) -- older engines (such as Fritz1 and the Doctor?
series) are included with Fritz to provide weaker engines for use by kids or
weaker players, but they're unavailable under XP. Now take this with a whopping
great amount of salt (since I don't have XP and can't test this), but I strongly
suspect that Koenig Schwarz is 32-bit and can be used by XP users. It's also
good for cases in which you might want to test how "obvious" an "obvious move"
is -- stronger engines rev up to nine plies or better almost instantaneously and
might show an "obvious" move as the first one in a variation, but you have no
way to know if the engine "saw" that move right out of the gate. You can use
Koenig Schwarz to see if it's "obvious" to an engine with a much shallower
search depth.
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