Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 10:40:36 06/21/03
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On June 21, 2003 at 13:00:51, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >On June 21, 2003 at 11:21:18, Jay Urbanski wrote: > >>On June 20, 2003 at 15:11:20, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >> >>>There's a guy on the playchess.com server whou uses a Dual Opteron 240 (1.4 Ghz) >>>and his kN/s for DF7, Shredder 7.04 and DJ8 Zx right up there with mine(mine is >>>faster but not by much) and I have a Dual Xeon 3.06 Ghz. >>> >>>I will try to find the links to support what I just told you. But most of these >>>top programs aren't optimized for the Opteron yet. >> >>Blargh on ICC is a dual 1.6Ghz Opteron - and he's the top rated standard player, >>computer or human. All the more impressive when you consider the next two are >>computers that play only humans, while Blargh takes on all comers. >> >>The nice thing about Opteron is that (unlike the P4) you don't have to optimize >>your code to get top performance out of it. It will run your 386 code screaming >>fast. > > >Hi! I registered on ICC for a computer account, so how do I make my computer >play against other comps there or GMs? > >Thanks Depends what chess engine you want to use and what interface you use to play on chess servers. If you want to use the Chessbase GUI, I wrote a HOWTO located at http://strops.sense.net/egan/index.htm Winboard and Arena are both free, and Arena supports both UCI and Winboard engines. Arena's biggest drawback is that it doesn't have opening books for UCI engines that don't come with their own (like Shredder). If you want to use Chess Tiger or Deep Sjeng, Chess Partner by Lokasoft is the most solid and cheapest of the commercial GUI's in my experience. Chess Assistant 7.1 has a ton of features and has database functionality in addition to ICC support, and it supports UCI and Winboard engines also - but its stability is not the greatest especially on SMP machines. However, I like it's ICC interface so much I use it for my personal login just about exclusively. It's the only interface I know that lets you observe games and have an engine do infinite analysis of the game in progress. It's around $100 though.
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