Author: Tony Nichols
Date: 00:19:57 08/17/04
Go up one level in this thread
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.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.