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Subject: Re: Which engine???

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 13:13:32 09/07/03

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On September 07, 2003 at 15:15:21, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On September 07, 2003 at 15:04:08, Torsten Schütz wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>If you had to choose:
>>
>>Would you you buy Hiarcs, Shredder, Junior or ChessTiger?? And why?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Torsten
>
>Shredder.
>
>Reasons:
>
>1. It's the strongest engine at the moment.
>2. You get a deep program (dual capable) for the price of a single program.
>3. You get two GUIs: The Chessbase GUI and the Shredder classic GUI, which is
>for some simple tasks really awful (ie: endgame oracle).
>4. Shredder rocks ;-)
>
>regards Joachim

I'm not sure if one can state definitively that the Shredder is the strongest --
but it may be and get mys vote for the strongest at ltc.  Reasons 2 through 4
are vaild.

Right now, I am in the middle of playing LTC 40/120 ona dual 1.7 Ghz with
pondering - single thread only.

This the result thus far.

holiday Secane, PA USA  2003

                      1 2 3 4 5 6
1   Shredder 7.04     * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1   4.5/6
2   Chess Tiger 15.0  ½ * 1 0 1 1   3.5/6
3   Fritz 8           ½ 0 * 1 1 ½   3.0/5
4   Ruffian 1.0.5     0 1 0 * ½ ½   2.5/6
5   Crafty 19.04 SE   ½ 0 0 ½ * ½   2.0/6
6   Deep Junior 8.ZX  0 0 ½ ½ ½ *   1.5/5





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