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Subject: Re: OT:Opinion Review:Comp chess

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 14:11:56 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

Arena

>Strongest ever chess program?(including Deep Blue)

HYDRA SCYLLA

>Current strongest program?

Hydra (don't know if that qualifies as a program and if not: Shredder 9/Junior
9)

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

Junior (any version) Gandalf (any version) Shredder 8 and Hydra.

>who will win the IPCCC?

Hydra

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

Nope

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

Fruit 2.0

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

Hydra :) no seriously, i would go with Ferret.

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

Opteron (dual)

>Strongest available free engine

Fruit 2.0

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

Genius.

>chess server you prefer?chessbase,ICC,FICS

FICS and ICC (i really dislike playchess)

>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

Will have to check that first.

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

Anand v Hydra or Deep JuniorX

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

Both

>give your estimated elo's for
>shredder 9 2800
>Fritz 8 Bilbao 2720
>Shredder 8 2790
>Shredder Classic 1.2 2600
>Shredder 7.04 2775
>Junior 9 2795
>
>What's your rating on Chessbase Rated game(file->rated game menu)

Don't have one there, only a correspondence rating at an un-official site.
But OTB it is around 2200.



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