Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 10:48:32 11/05/03
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On November 05, 2003 at 11:52:59, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >With the World Championship in Graz around the corner, I'd like to tell you what >my recent extensive testing with different chess programs has shown: out of >_many_ good programs there are three to watch out for, three that will be placed >very highly in the coming tournaments and rating lists: Ruffian, Deep Sjeng and >El Chinito. The trio is just stupendous: both tactically and positionally. I >tend to think that one of the three will take over place #1 on the SSDF list >very soon. > >The latest Ruffian (post Leiden version!) is perhaps the best chess program I >have ever tested, but Deep Sjeng and El Chinito also leave one gaping. I can >only imagine what their latest versions (that I do not have) are like. > >Let us see if my prediction will be true or completely off the mark... I have not seen the same results with El Chinito as you have. Jorge Pichard says it will be the second strongest free program behind Ruffian, but I don't see it, and he makes lots of ridiculous predictions/statements anyway. I've been playing games with El Chinito the last few days against Ruffian, SOS, Aristarch, Yace, Crafty, and SmarThink, and so far it only has a plus score against SmarThink, and it took El Chinito winning 4 straight games against SmarThink at the end to acheive that (maybe a bug in SmarThink, who knows). El Chinito and SmarThink have only played a total of 8 games, so that is hardly conclusive. Dann Corbit has posted similar results to mine. It certainly hangs in there with these engines, and future versions may be stronger than them, but I don't think it is quite there yet.
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