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Subject: Re: It has a new home!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:36:25 06/29/03

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On June 29, 2003 at 07:42:39, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>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

You are right that I forgot it.

There are also some other programs that may be at similiar level to
crafty(GreenLight,Delfi)  but we have not enough evidence for it and I will wait
to see their results in the premier division.

Uri



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