Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 02:31:29 12/18/03
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On December 18, 2003 at 05:12:20, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 18, 2003 at 04:48:58, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On December 17, 2003 at 18:08:14, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>>Actually, I can claim that Genesis is one of the strongest programs in the >>>world, and that is correct, since Genesis is in the top 100 :) >> >>I doubt that. I think the vast majority of the amateur chess engines are >>private. If you play on the ICC, for instance, you will see that there are >>lots of very strong engines which are not publicably available, which do >>not play in any of the Winboard tournaments, but are clearly extremely >>strong. >> >>From what I have seen, it seems that my engine is at least on the same >>level as Genesis, but I don't think it is among the top 500 programs. >> >>Tord > >I agree that genesis is probably not in the top 100 but I believe that like your >engine it is in the top 500. >I guess that part of the private engines are practically a clone of commercial >programs or free programs. > >Programmers who develop strong programs need to test them and if somebody >like Leo give free computer time for testing then I see no reason not to send >the program to him. > >Uri Leo is doing a great job - but that does not imply that everyone will/must/shall use his excellent services. Lot would prefer to test their engines themselves or with their own testers until they decide to make it public (I am in this category) or never make them public but continue it as a hobby. Need I repeat the wisecrack about "assume" here again ? ;) Mridul
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