Author: Mike S.
Date: 18:57:46 01/27/04
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On January 27, 2004 at 10:28:08, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Did I used the word "could be" and the two matches is just for us to get an idea >of how strong List and Aristarch are. Now you are fee to match them against all >the Free Winboard Engines at longer time control, and provide us a more >scientific evidence :-) Let's not forget about Ruffian 1.0.x... The BfF ratings are based on very many games equivalent to 10+ m/g on 1500 MHz: http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/bff-liste.htm There, Ruffian 1.0.5 is currently listed as best free UCI rated 2690, ranking just behind King 3.12c (but that was before the recent public release of List 5.12 which is rated 2706). It's a bit unclear with Aristarch, the 4.21 version of it ranks better than some 4.3x versions. There are List 5.04, but also SOS.3 f.Arena, SmarThink 0.17 and Crafty 19.08 SE in between. I'd say #1 and #2 free engines are List 5.12 and Ruffian 1.0 (in unknown order since their margins of error overlap), and for #3 there are several candidates :-) These are most probably the strongest *free* engines for all protocols, although IIRC there was a Fritz 6 version on the magazine CD of a german computergames magazine (not chess specific). But that wasn't really free in the common sense. OTOH, I've read that currently there's a Fritz 8 (!) version in german shops for only 4.99 Euros! So, the freeware and commercial sector are giving each other a hard time :-)) Regards, M.Scheidl
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