Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 16:01:51 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) Hydra (is there really any doubt?) > >Current strongest program? Hydra > >your favourite chess program(according to style of engine's play) Gandalf or Hiarcs > >who will win the IPCCC? Hydra, possibly Fritz > >is TSCP on 4*2.4 GHZ better than Crafty on pentium 1 300 MHZ? Not likely. >Strongest open source program?(Crafty,Fruit,Slowchess,Phalanx...) Hard to say. I would still pick Crafty though. > >if the following programs were available commercially,which would be your >favourite pick?(pick 1) >Ferret,Diep,Ikarus,CilkChess(former Socrates) Easily Ferret. No question. > >best hardware for Comp chess?AMD,Opteron,Intel,celeron? Opteron. I felt the wrath of one last night.. right Mike? >Strongest available free engine Prodeo > >strongest freeware program that doesnt have WB/UCI suport? Genius > >chess server you prefer?chessbase,ICC,FICS ICC/FICS. Playchess is just useless as far as I am concerned. > >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 Never tried, never cared for test positions. > >Pick up 1 Grandmaster and 1 program you would like for Man-Machine match? Wow. Excellent question. I would love to see: 1.The King vs Veselin Topalov 2.Gandalf vs Alexander Morozevich 3.Chess Tiger vs Viswanathan Anand 4.Crafty vs Micheal Adams > >how do you determine the strength of the engine?by engine matches(elo points) or >test suite By games. >give your estimated elo's for >shredder 9 >Fritz 8 Bilbao >Shredder 8 >Shredder Classic 1.2 >Shredder 7.04 >Junior 9 See the SSDF. > >What's your rating on Chessbase Rated game(file->rated game menu) -200. I can play fine chess until the opening move is done :) Peter
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