Author: Mike Hood
Date: 11:31:38 12/07/03
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On December 07, 2003 at 13:24:24, Geoff Lane wrote: >On December 07, 2003 at 12:59:57, Jim Gibson wrote: > >>I use Hiarcs 9 for analysis and practice but could really do with having an >>engine that I can beat sometimes. The help file refers to Fritz 1.2 but the >>engine isn't included. >> >>Is there a (legitimate) place to download this from or do I have to buy another >>chessbase product? >> >>Also, are there any other entertainingly weak engines out there that I could >>use? >> >>This'll be a diversion from all of the high end intellectual thought usually >>required here! > >They don't come much more entertainingly weak than this ChessBase native engine: > >http://www.chessbase.de/download/download/Koenig%20Schwarz.eng Slightly stronger than Koenig Schwarz is the Chessbase native engine Turing, to be found at http://www.spiegel.de/static/download/turing.zip The third weakest Chessbase native engine is Bam Bam, to be found as a free engine on Chessbase's download page, but it's much stronger than Koenig Schwarz or Turing. If I want a weak (but not necessarily stupid) engine, the best way I know of handicapping an engine is to set a maximum search depth. This works particularly well with Fritz 8.
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