Author: Graham Banks
Date: 20:07:21 09/20/04
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On September 20, 2004 at 22:09:16, Mike Hood wrote: >On September 20, 2004 at 21:47:57, Albert Silver wrote: > >>On September 20, 2004 at 21:28:39, Mike Hood wrote: >> >>>Check the CSS-rating list at http://www.computerschach.de/rangliste/ for chess >>>engines running under the Fritz interface. In eighth place you'll find List >>>5.12, a Chessbase native engine. It's NOT the UCI engine with the same version >>>number, it's the Chessbase engine that received notoriety due to its >>>disqualification from the computer chess championship in November 2003. >> >>What´s the difference? You can still run it just fine in the Fritz GUI. >> >> Albert > >There's no difference in the engine, but I don't trust Chessbase's UCI >implementation. When initialising UCI engines the GUI sporadically fails to >allocate the requested memory for hash tables. UCI engines are at a disadvantage >in engine tournaments at short time controls, because the clock starts before >the initialisation is complete. > Can't say I've noticed this with List 512! Graham. >But even if Chessbase's UCI implementation did work correctly, it's a matter of >principle. There's a high quality engine being tested by CSS - a magazine that >has close ties to Chessbase - which has never been made available to the public, >as far as I know.
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