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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