Author: Kolss
Date: 06:42:40 09/27/03
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On September 26, 2003 at 16:41:24, Peter Stayne wrote: >Money's a bit tight right now, so I need to know if Chessbase's Young Talents CD >is worth the purchase. It seems that most of the programs it offers are >available elsewhere on the web. The CD (and therefore the engines) is three and a half years old, which is quite some age in computer chess. Following engines are on it: AnMon (5.07 if I am not mistaken - there is at least a 5.21 available for free on the net) Gromit (3.11 - there is the follow-up engine Anaconda 1.0, which is free) Ikarus (V0.18 - there is no other version available; however, the engine has been completely rewritten two years ago and significantly improved) Little Goliath (there are many newer free versions, but I do not know whether any are much stronger) Patzer (3.11, I believe - there was only one newer version (3.61) for money on a Winboard edition CD which apparently you cannot get any more) Phalanx (XXII - this version is available for free as Winboard engine) SOS (no version number - there is a stronger free UCI version SOS 3) No warranty for the correctness of any of this information (except for that pertaining to Ikarus...), this is just to my best knowledge. You need to decide yourself whether you think it is worthwhile spending money for these engines. Best regards, Munjong.
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