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Subject: Re: Best tactical engine

Author: Tony Nichols

Date: 00:19:57 08/17/04

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On August 17, 2004 at 03:11:19, Manfred Meiler wrote:

>On August 16, 2004 at 22:56:43, Tony Nichols wrote:
>
>>On August 16, 2004 at 22:52:59, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>On August 16, 2004 at 20:30:06, Tony Nichols wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm looking for the best engine/settings for tactical analysis of my games.
>>>>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>
>>>Freeware or commercial?
>>>
>>>If commercial, I'd guess either CM10K with as yet to be found stellar settings
>>>or Deep Fritz 8. I mention the settings as CM9K is a tactical super wizard, but
>>>is much better using some of the custom settings. If you're patient, a new
>>>Junior is probably not far off, and if the games are to be the judge, should be
>>>quite something.
>>>
>>>If freeware, the best are probably Pro Deo 1.0 (using a custom setting, such as
>>>Q3, is bound to yield even better tactical analysis than the default), Ruffian
>>>1.05, List 5.12 and of course the latest version of Crafty.I'm not up to par on
>>>all the freeware engines, so others may add some tips.
>>>
>>>                                         Albert
>> I own all the new engines including CM10 and Ruffian 2.02, I also have all the
>>strongest freeware engines. I am currently doing test suites for all engines. I
>>was curious if someone has already done something similiar and found better
>>settings than the defaults.
>>                                   Thanks Albert
>
>
>Hello Tony,
>
>the test suite "Weltmeister-Test" (WM-Test, 100 test positions) includes 38
>difficult test positions in king attack.
>I've tested 273 (versions of) engines in "WM-Test" (every test position 20
>minutes on AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400 mhz, 128...256 mb hash) - the best
>engine/setting so far in these 38 test positions of king attack:
>Pro Deo 1.0 with the "Q3 - Tactical Engine" personality: 32 positions solved,
>2.82 minutes average solve time.
>
>Another strong engines/settings in king attack positions of "WM-Test":
>- Shredder 8 Gambit: 32 solved / 2.99 minutes
>- Fritz 7.0.0.8....: 31 / 3.02
>- CM9000_Pillen....: 31 / 3.38
>- Fritz 8.0.0.23...: 30 / 2.68
>- CM9000_SKR.......: 28 / 2.40
>- CT 15 Gambit agr.: 29 / 4.41
>- Deep Junior 8.ZX.: 28 / 3.85
>- CM9000_R1........: 27 / 1.88
>- Gothmog 0.4.8....: 28 / 3.99.
>
>Detailed results (in Excel) of 260 (versions of) engines available for free
>download at http://www.computerschach.de/test/index.htm.
>
>Regards,
>Manfred

Thank you for the stats Manfred I will put Pro Deo "Q3 tactical" thru some more
test suites at a faster time limit.



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