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Subject: Re: Weak Engine Shootout!

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 21:19:32 12/07/03

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On December 07, 2003 at 20:41:55, Jasmine Baer wrote:

>These 4 terrific games were run on my home PC (Pentium 4, 2 GHz with 480 MB of
>RAM) at a blitz time of 5'+0", utilizing an opening book that I threw together
>using the Fritz GUI.  All I did was select all games from my TWIC database in
>which one or both of the players had an Elo rating of 2600+.
>
>Turing overwhelmed Konig Schwarz (King Black).  Question:  Is Konig Schwarz the
>engine in "Playing Chess with Fritz and Chesster"?

Yes. The free engine is the same as the engine included in the product 12 months
ago, so maybe the "Fritz and Chesster" engine has been updated. Although I doubt
it. The whole point of Koenig Schwarz is that it's a simple engine that
beginners can defeat.

Turing has the advantage over Koenig Schwarz that it at least thinks ahead.
Koenig Schwarz moves immediately; my guess is that it only does a single ply
search, which takes a fraction of a second. Turing is a brute force engine,
calculating every line without pruning, and it always calculates every single
move at each search depth, so it often loses on time... but only against engines
stronger than Koenig Schwarz.



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