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Subject: Re: Weak Engine Shootout!

Author: Henrik Boye Laursen

Date: 22:20:10 12/07/03

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On December 08, 2003 at 00:19:32, Mike Hood wrote:

>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.

Where can I find the Turing engine ?

Regards

Henrik




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