Author: blass uri
Date: 12:50:51 01/17/99
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On January 17, 1999 at 04:33:42, Marcus Kaestner wrote: >On January 16, 1999 at 17:35:28, Lin Harper wrote: > >>On January 16, 1999 at 13:17:39, Julio Richards wrote: >> >>>I'm interested in this also. I wish someone who has any of these engines would >>>reply regarding strength, features, ect. >>> >>>Regards >>>Julio >>If Wchess200 and Zarkov5 are any good perhaps SSDF will report their ratings as >>high, then they will start selling. > >On my K6-400 with 256MB Hash WChess plays impressivly strong (but not with the >original Genius-book!). On tournament >level it has positive scores against Junior 5, Junior 4.6, Fritz 5.16, Hiarcs 6, >Hiarcs 7, Genius 6 and Nimzo 99. Equal score against Fritz 5.32, negative score >against Zarkov 5 and very bad score (4.5-9.5) against Shredder 3. > >For a novum WChess did mate Junior 5 on tournament-level in 25 moves! > >WChess plays great pawn sacrifices and wins dozens of moves later, but if it had >no idea it is very passive and sometimes shows a horrible endgame. It has poor >endgame knowledge. > >Zarkov has also a strong middlegame, much more stable than WChess, but not as >dangerous as WChess. zarkov is also weak in endgame. It has big problems against >all top-programs except WChess. > >As a result Zarkov is not as strong as WChess. WChess is able to beat every >program in the world if you can make an opening book where WChess can find >ideas. Did you try to use different opening books for other programs or you tried to use a better opening book only for wchess? Uri
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