Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 04:18:36 11/21/03
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On November 21, 2003 at 06:04:41, Tord Romstad wrote: >On November 20, 2003 at 19:14:15, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Ruffian 2.0 by Per-Ola Valfridsson (Sweden) is the strongest Winboard >compatible engine in the world today. > >It seems clear that it is one of the strongest Winboard engines, but is >it really that clear that it is stronger than The King, Rebel and Sjeng? >I haven't followed the latest tournament results closely, but to me it >seems that all four engines have comparable strength. > >>Linux engine included > >I suppose this is good news to most Linux users, but to me it is not very >exciting. Yace, Phalanx, Crafty and Pepito are all strong enough to >easily beat me and my engine, and I don't see why I would want something >stronger. > >I wish there were more weak engines available for Linux. I am tired of >seeing my engine lose all test matches I run by huge margins. Without >all the good results I recieve from Winboard and UCI users, I would >probably have given up in despair a long time ago. > >Tord If you are tired of such strong opponents for Gothmog on your Linux machine, why don't you get (freely downloadable) Gromit 2.20 (pretty strong but weaker than Crafty, Yace, Pepito or Deep Sjeng and Ruffian - both commercial now -), or, even better, as you wish a bit weaker engine, get Fortress or Cilian for Linux. Both latter are intellegent but beatable programs. If you can't find them on the net, please feel free to email me and I'll send them over :-). On second thought you might as well get Beowulf, or Colchess for Linux ... Or GK... or... Djordje
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