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Subject: Re: Green light chess and delfi 4.2 vey agressive in arena

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 09:56:01 09/12/03

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On September 12, 2003 at 10:32:19, Tim Foden wrote:

>On September 12, 2003 at 10:11:44, Jon Dart wrote:
>
>>I've run some test games between Green Light Chess and Arasan lately, and Arasan
>>is getting beaten like a red-haired stepchild :-(. So I'm impressed, too.
>>
>>--Jon
>
>:)  GLC just got lucky... I assure you  :)
>
>More seriously though, over the years GLC has got stronger and stronger.  And
>during this time there has generally been a specific a target engine... one I
>played GLC against, and GLC lost, the target being to beat this engine.  Arasan
>was one of the engines, that certainly used to pound GLC into the ground.  :)
>
>Other engines that have been used for this purpose by GLC are TCB and Phalanx.
>Nowadays I have a gauntlet of 11 engines, and Arasan, TCB and Phalanx are still
>in it.  But it also includes Crafty, Yace, Delfi, Aristarch, etc.
>
>My target these days it not just to beat the 'next' target, but to beat them all
>:)  It may take some time! (particularly that Ruffian fella :)
>
>Cheers, Tim.

Tim/Jon,

This actually brings up an interesting subject for me.  I do almost
*all* of my development under Linux and I'm wondering what a good
set of programs that run natively under Linux would be for this
gauntlet.  My current short list (with the requirement that it
run *natively* under Linux includes):

Arasan
Gothmog
Crafty
Yace
Pepito
Gnuchess 4.x
Gnuchess 5.x
pepito

Are there other good engines that run under Linux and Xboard
that would be worth including.  Also note that I'd like a
weaker program or two since I'd like to be able to run the
gauntlet and win at least a few games ;-)

My idea would be to run a set of 10 game matches (of 10 games
each) against these engines (most likely at 15 +3 time levels)
as an indication of wheter I'm making progress.  I'd love to
include PostModernist, but there is no available Linux version.

Anyway, thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated.

regards,
--tom






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