Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 08:13:41 12/26/98
We received the latest Swedish list on the day
before Christmas and it was much too busy for
Tim to get them up on the Computer-Chess Resource
Center. Hopefully, it will be up on Monday or
Tuesday.
In the meantime, here are the first fifty... along
with comments by Thoralf...
THE SSDF RATING LIST 1998-12-24 63528 games played by 186 computers
Rating + - Games Won Oppo
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1 Fritz 5.0 PB30% 67MB P200 MMX 2566 25 -24 906 68% 2431
2 Junior 5.0 64MB P200 MMX 2556 33 -31 502 67% 2435
3 Nimzo 98 56MB P200 MMX 2526 25 -24 812 61% 2450
4 Rebel 9.0 45MB P200 MMX 2524 25 -25 802 63% 2432
5 Hiarcs 6.0 46MB P200 MMX 2523 26 -26 720 58% 2464
6 MChess Pro 7.1 38MB P200 MMX 2512 27 -26 714 59% 2447
7 Rebel 8.0 45MB P200 MMX 2507 32 -31 493 59% 2440
8 MChess Pro 6.0 40MB P200 MMX 2505 29 -28 599 58% 2449
9 Shredder 2.0 56MB P200 MMX 2502 27 -27 679 57% 2453
10 Genius 5.0 DOS 41MB P200 MMX 2496 25 -25 788 58% 2438
11 MChess Pro 8.0 64MB P200 MMX 2482 35 -34 414 57% 2434
12 Gandalf 3.0 64MB P200 MMX 2467 41 -40 307 59% 2399
13 Kallisto II 64MB P200 MMX 2445 35 -35 398 52% 2429
14 Rebel 9.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2442 27 -27 672 51% 2437
15 Rebel 8.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2439 19 -19 1331 57% 2393
16 Hiarcs 6.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2438 20 -20 1197 54% 2412
17 Hiarcs 5.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2427 39 -38 343 61% 2351
18 Genius 5.0 DOS Pentium 90 MHz 2426 20 -20 1164 52% 2414
19 MChess Pro 6.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2417 19 -19 1333 51% 2412
20 MChess Pro 5.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2407 26 -25 769 63% 2315
21 Genius 4.0 DOS Pentium 90 MHz 2405 23 -23 944 60% 2336
22 Junior 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2388 25 -25 798 45% 2422
23 Nimzo 3.5 Pentium 90 MHz 2387 24 -24 854 47% 2407
23 Chessmaster 5000 Pentium 90 MHz 2387 49 -45 240 67% 2262
25 Shredder 1.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2385 59 -58 145 53% 2365
26 Nimzo 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2380 26 -25 767 58% 2322
27 R30 v. 2.5 2371 43 -40 303 66% 2255
28 Junior 3.3-3.5 Pentium 90 MHz 2358 31 -31 516 47% 2378
29 CometA90 64MB P200 MMX 2354 42 -43 276 41% 2420
30 Fritz 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2345 20 -20 1222 46% 2373
31 Fritz 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2334 40 -39 324 60% 2263
32 WChess 1.06 Pentium 90 MHz 2332 22 -23 975 43% 2385
33 Kallisto 1.98 Pentium 90 MHz 2327 22 -22 1017 42% 2381
34 WChess 1.03 486/50-66 MHz 2299 27 -27 677 49% 2305
35 Meph Genius 68 030 33 MHz 2298 45 -44 248 55% 2261
36 Chessmaster 4000 486/50-66 MHz 2291 34 -33 462 66% 2171
37 Rebel Decade Pentium 90 MHz 2276 29 -30 563 45% 2313
38 Meph RISC 2 1 MB 2226 62 -66 125 39% 2307
39 Berlin Pro 68 020 24 MHz 2225 24 -24 850 58% 2171
40 Comet32 Pentium 90 MHz 2202 24 -26 953 24% 2405
41 Mephisto Montreux ARM 14 MHz 512K 2192 31 -29 629 73% 2020
42 Atlanta SH7000 20 MHz 2191 65 -60 132 63% 2096
43 Socrates 3.0 486/33 MHz 2139 49 -50 203 47% 2160
44 Sapphire II 2112 37 -35 398 65% 2005
45 Novag Sapphire H8 10 MHz 2090 22 -22 1014 47% 2108
46 Milano Pro SH7000 20 MHz 2082 36 -35 409 65% 1975
47 Gandalf 2.1 Pentium 90 MHz 2038 46 -51 242 27% 2212
48 Zarkov 3.0 486/25-33 MHz 2029 46 -48 232 39% 2108
49 Complete Chess System 486/33 MHz 1984 47 -47 221 47% 2006
50 Kasparov President/GK-2100 H8 10 MHz 1978 29 -29 579 46% 2005
11 MChess Pro 8.0 64MB P200 MMX, 2482
Junior5 P200X 9.5-14.5 Nimzo98 P200X 16.5-23.5 Rebel 8 P200X 20.5-19.5
Shred 2 P200X 15-25 Genius5 P200X 15.5-24.5 Rebel 9.0 P90 13-7
Rebel 8.0 P90 12-8 Hiarcs 6 P90 14-6 Genius 5 P90 4.5-3.5
MCPro 6.0 P90 12.5-7.5 Junior 4 P90 3.5-2.5 Nimzo 3.5 P90 13.5-10.5
CometA90P200X 16-8 Fritz 3.0 P90 15.5-4.5 WChess P90 16-8
Kallis198 P90 17.5-6.5 Comet32 P90 20-0=20
38 Meph RISC 2 1 MB, 2226
Genius5 P200X 1-2 Hiarcs 6 P90 3-5 Genius 3 P90 5-15
MCPro 5.0 P90 1-9 Genius 4 P90 6-10 Rebel 7.0 P90 2.5-7.5
Kallis198 P90 2.5-7.5 Genius 68 030 2.5-2.5 Berlin Pro 7.5-12.5
Mach IV 68020 9.5-3.5 Gandalf21 P90 8-2=20
42 Atlanta SH7000 20 MHz, 2191
RISC 2500 11.5-8.5 Vancou. 68020 8-12 Berlin 68 000 11-5
Sapphire II 13.5-7.5 Vancou. 68000 4-1 Sapphire 11-9
Meph. MM 5 17.5-2.5 Super Exp. C 7-3=20
The new program from Marty Hirsch and Sandro Necchi,
MChess Pro 8.0 P200 MMX, does not seem to be better
against other computers than it's predecessor.
After 414 tournament games it has a rating which
is 30 points lower than that for MCP 7.1.
The chess computer Atlanta is new on the list. It
has a rating of 2191 after 132 games. That is 109
points more than Milano Pro has. I don't know if
the program itself is different, but Atlanta has
larger hashtables, which increases the playing
strength.
That RISC 2 1MB has 26 rating points more than
RISC 1MB is perhaps not so interesting any longer!
Still, many years too late we have managed to play
more than 100 games, which is the lower limit on
our list. RISC 2 1MB has 2226 after 125 games,
which makes it one of the strongest chess computers.
Junior 5.0 P200 MMX has lost 11 points compared to
the latest list, and is now ten points behind
Fritz 5.0.
Some words about the future of SSDF and the rating
list. There are no plans to stop making the rating
list! In the foreseeable future it will continue to
be published on Internet and sent out by email. It
will probably be made eight times a year, but that's
not a promise. If we run out of programs to test or
if I don't get time enough to make it, the rating
list will appear less often.
The magazine PLY, which has come out since 1979,
will most likely disappear. Since most of the mem-
bers of SSDF have payed their annual fee in order
to receive PLY, things cannot continue as before.
We hope that some of the members will support us
even though PLY disappears as a paper magazine.
Still, with less money to spend on repairing
and upgrading PCs and on other costs, the
number of games played by the test organization
will probably go down somewhat.
At the moment we are still playing with Junior 5.0
and MChess Pro 8.0 and have started with Fritz 5.32.
A couple of days ago we received Hiarcs 7.0.
Fritz 5.32 and Hiarcs 7.0 will appear on the next
rating list in February.=20
SSDF wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Thoralf Karlsson
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