Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 04:42:39 06/29/03
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On June 29, 2003 at 06:18:06, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 29, 2003 at 05:26:50, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On June 28, 2003 at 21:50:37, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >> >>>I think that the ChessBase top programs are excellent. They are damn strong, >>>the best one can find, with only a few exceptions (Ruffian, King, Rebel and a >>>couple of other mavericks...). The problem lies not in the programs or >>>programmers. >> >>??? >> >>So Junior8 is in your opinion a damn strong program ?? > >You cannot deny the fact that there are more than an hundred of programs that >are worse than Junior and less than 20 programs that are better than it. > >I think that it is possible to call every program that is in the top 20 a damn >strong program. > >How many program may be better than Junior? > >The names that I can think of at this moment(probably most of them are weaker >than Junior but I decided to be generous in giving names of candidates when I >also consider the near future) are only: > >1)Shredder >2)Chessmaster >3)Rebel >4)Fritz >5)Sjeng >6)Tiger >7)Hiarcs >8)Virtual chess(I do not know the level of the next version) >9)Kaissa(I read in the winboard forum that latest private version beats >Ruffian1.0.1 and Crafty) >10)Ruffian >11)List >12)Sos >13)Gandalf6 >14)Warp(did almost the same as Gandalf in Leo tournament and it is a new >program) I miss Aristarch in your list. I don`t think it is weaker than Sos and it is updated regularly. SSDF should really test a recent List and a recent Aristarch version. Michael > >I decided that the minimal level to consider are programs that are today at >least near crafty's level. > >I did not include Crafty or Yace or Comet because the programmers do not seem to >have big inspirations to improve their program and the programs did not get a >big improvement for a long time. > >Uri
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