Author: Pavel Blokhine
Date: 16:10:37 06/21/03
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On June 21, 2003 at 13:40:36, Jay Urbanski wrote: >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. "Open your favorite text editor and create a file in the Winboard directory called wb.cmd with the following line:" What is supposed to be the favorite text editor? i created the wb.cmd file already but the rest seems kind of confusing
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