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Subject: Re: OT:Opinion Review:Comp chess

Author: Rick Hagen

Date: 13:31:56 02/22/05

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On February 22, 2005 at 15:49:18, Madhavan wrote:

>Which GUI do you prefer:
>chessbase,chessassitant,Arena,Shredder classic
>

ChessBase

>Strongest ever chess program?(including Deep Blue)


Shredder 8 (or 7.04..)
(Cray Blitz, Deep Thought, BamBam)

>Current strongest program?

Shredder 9

>your favourite chess program(according to style of engine's play)

Junior, Rebel (Pro Deo)

>who will win the IPCCC?

Not Hydra please!
So... Shredder.

>
>is TSCP on 4*2.4 GHZ better than Crafty on pentium 1 300 MHZ?

Pass


>Strongest open source program?(Crafty,Fruit,Slowchess,Phalanx...)

Fruit

>
>if the following programs were available commercially,which would be your
>favourite pick?(pick 1)
>Ferret,Diep,Ikarus,CilkChess(former Socrates)

Diep (with 700 point opening book !)


>best hardware for Comp chess?AMD,Opteron,Intel,celeron?
>

Opteron

>Strongest available free engine

Pro Deo 1.1 (zappa looks strong...first impression though)


>strongest freeware program that doesnt have WB/UCI suport?

Pass


>chess server you prefer?chessbase,ICC,FICS


Chessbase (ICC feels good in some way however)

>does the strongest program on your hardware solve "Nolot Test position"all 11(if
>not,how many)
>Nolot can be found at www.brucemo.com

Gonna give it a go at that one....

>
>Pick up 1 Grandmaster and 1 program you would like for Man-Machine match?

E. Nemeth vs Shredder 9
if financially not feasible however, I'll have to look forward to:
A. Morozevich vs Deep Junior 9


>
>how do you determine the strength of the engine?by engine matches(elo points) or
>test suite
>

Nunn matches, tournaments (using same book for all etc)


>give your estimated elo's for
(all relative of course)

>shredder 9

2810 (still playing matches to be certain)

>Fritz 8 Bilbao

2802 (own list)

>Shredder 8

2806 (own list)

>Shredder Classic 1.2

dunno

>Shredder 7.04

2752 (own list)

>Junior 9

2793 (own list)

>
>What's your rating on Chessbase Rated game(file->rated game menu)

1803 Blitz (well... day before yesterday.. Before I decided to play rated games
while drunk, so now a bit under 1800 (darn it))

2633 Computer


Rick




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