Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 04:25:00 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. We'll never know. At any rate, I think it is safe to say that neither Genesis and Gothmog are among the top 100. >I guess that part of the private engines are practically a clone of commercial >programs or free programs. Some of them might be, but I don't think the percentage is very high. >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. There are also people who spend thousands of hours of computer time testing chess engines without ever publishing the results, you know. :-) Tord
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