Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 06:29:46 11/09/98
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My notes:
- While Junior 5.0 is number 2, note the small number
of games (high variance) - it may move around a bit yet.
- Note that Chessbase says a Fritz 5 autoplayer version
will be available to us all in December - some hope
of ending the "autoplayer wars"
- Full list on the SSDF site, as usual
-RAF
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The SSDF Rating List 1998-11-07
62714 games played by 184 computers
Rating + - Games Won Avg
Oppo
Rtng
1 Fritz PB32%5.0 67MB P200 MMX 2570 25 -24 868 69% 2426
2 Junior 5.0 64MB P200 MMX 2567 51 -46 231 70% 2418
3 Nimzo 98 56MB P200 MMX 2527 26 -25 751 61% 2447
3 Hiarcs 6.0 45MB P200 MMX 2527 27 -27 680 59% 2459
5 Rebel 9.0 44MB P200 MMX 2520 26 -25 764 63% 2427
6 MChess Pro 7.1 38MB P200 MMX 2513 27 -26 714 59% 2449
7 Rebel 8.0 43MB P200 MMX 2511 34 -33 453 60% 2437
8 MChess Pro 6.0 40MB P200 MMX 2506 29 -28 599 58% 2450
9 Shredder 2.0 55MB P200 MMX 2499 28 -27 639 57% 2452
10 Genius DOS 5.0 40MB P200 MMX 2494 26 -26 733 58% 2439
11 Gandalf 3.0 64MB P200 MMX 2468 41 -40 307 59% 2400
12 Kallisto II 64MB P200 MMX 2446 35 -35 398 52% 2430
13 Rebel 9.0 P90 2444 28 -28 639 51% 2434
14 Rebel 8.0 P90 2442 19 -19 1311 57% 2392
15 Hiarcs 6.0 P90 2441 21 -20 1153 54% 2412
16 Hiarcs 5.0 P90 2429 39 -38 343 61% 2352
17 Genius DOS 5.0 P90 2427 21 -20 1156 52% 2414
18 MChess Pro 6.0 P90 2418 19 -19 1296 51% 2411
19 Genius 3.0 P90 2410 26 -26 749 62% 2322
20 MChess Pro 5.0 P90 2408 26 -25 769 63% 2316
20 Rebel 6.0 P90 2408 31 -30 540 60% 2336
22 Genius DOS 4.0 P90 2406 23 -23 938 60% 2337
23 Rebel 7.0 P90 2402 26 -25 749 61% 2321
24 Hiarcs 4.0 P90 2393 25 -25 766 55% 2358
25 Junior 4.0 P90 2389 25 -25 784 45% 2421
26 ChessMstr 5000 P90 2387 49 -45 240 67% 2262
Comments
to the Swedish Ratinglist 7/98, November 7
A majority of the new chess programs usually arrive during the last
months of the year. 1998 is no exception from this rule. But in one
aspect this autumn seems to differ from earlier years. I wonder if the
list of newly arrived or recently announced chess programs ever has
been so long as it is now!
If the two new entrants of this list are included, I can count to 15
very interesting chess programs, all from different chess programmers!
Partly this seems to be due to the new concept of one user interface -
many chess engines. Chess programmers can now concentrate their
efforts on improving the strength of the engine instead of working on
the inter- face.
During the last months we have played 398 tournament games with Bart
Weststrates new program Kallisto II. It has now a rating of 2446.
Compared to it's predecessor Kallisto 1.98, the program itself seems
to be improved about 40 points.
The other new program is Junior 5.0 P200 MMX, made by Amir Ban and
Shay Bushinsky. So far we haven't played more than 231 games, but it's
fairly safe to conclude that the program is strongly improved compared
to Junior 4.0. If we subtract 79 points for the hardware difference,
there is still 99 points between the two program versions!
Initially Junior 5.0 had very good results against several other
programs, making us believe that we were dealing with a new number one
on the list. But as can be seen, Junior 5.0 would have needed four
more points for the first place! Practically speaking Fritz 5.0 and
Junior 5.0 presently must be considered to be equally strong against
other chess programs.
Yesterday I received a much longed-for and pleasant information from
ChessBase. In december they will market a CDROM with the new 32-bit
version of Fritz 5 as well as the "old" 16-bit version of the same
program, both equipped with autoplayers!
In the future SSDF will only use autoplayers which are publically
available. I hope that this decision together with the announcement
from ChessBase will convince all chess programmers to provide
autoplayers for their present and future programs.
Next rating list will appear in December. Atlanta, RISC 2 and MChess
Pro 8.0 will appear on that list. With some luck Hiarcs 7.0 could also
be included.
_________________________________________________________________
Thoralf Karlsson, thoralf.karlsson@mailbox.swipnet.se
Chairman of the SSDF
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