Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 12:30:59 11/05/03
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On November 05, 2003 at 13:48:32, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. What you say makes sense, but you may have played only at very fast time controls. I have matched El Chinito against other programs at G/30 and it played some great chess. It was way ahead of some other well-known programs and beat some commercials. Let us say that I believe its strength might easily be somewhere around the 2600+ mark on the SSDF list. Of course, my estimate is based on only about 100 games. But the initial results are very promising albeit _tentative_. Djordje
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