Author: margolies,marc
Date: 21:32:36 09/21/03
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the chess academy interface supports winboard and comes with a constellation of winboard engines on the install disk. the new generation of chess academy, to be released soon also supports UCI in their gui, also Nalimov tables, and the designer offers his own opening book and middlegame book. Rus, don't be so quick to put something down because it costs money. some people put alot of work into this. On September 22, 2003 at 00:27:22, Russell Reagan wrote: >On September 21, 2003 at 22:07:24, Bob Riley wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I see that Chess Academy has a budget-priced DB and tutorial called "Goliath >>Blitz." Has anyone used it? How good is it as a tutorial program. My rating >>is only about 1100-1200 BTW. >> >>Thanks for any feedback. >> >>Bob Riley > >Goliath Blitz is the commercial version of Little Goliath, which can be obtained >for free. Little Goliath is approximately equal in playing strength to Crafty >and Aristarch, and I would imagine that the commercial version would be stronger >(maybe a little, or maybe a lot). From the SSDF, Goliath Light (yet another >version of the program) appears to be about equal with some versions of Gandalf >and Nimzo (both commercial programs). > >Personally, I don't have a whole lot of money to spend on chess engines, so I am >little more picky about what I buy. There are lots of strong engines out there. >I prefer to buy the ones that offer something special and different, such as >responsive customer support, versions that work in multiple interfaces (ex. UCI >versions), versions that work on multiple operating systems, and so on. > >So when I make my purchase of new chess engines soon, I'll probably be buying >Shredder, which comes with a UCI version, and Deep Sjeng, which supports just >about any interface or OS you could want. Sjeng, being a Lokasoft engine, comes >with the ChessPartner interface, which looks like a very nice product in itself. >If I had more money to spend I'd probably get Rebel 12, which supports the >Winboard protocol, and then maybe ChessMaster, which also supports Winboard. > >Basically I really appreciate it a great deal when someone doesn't lock me into >one interface. It takes no more than one afternoon to implement UCI. I'm amazed >more commercial engines don't come with Winboard or UCI support. It's such a >small thing to implement that means so much to a lot of computer chess >hobbyists.
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