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Subject: Re: OT:Opinion Review:Comp chess

Author: Mark Young

Date: 19:42:07 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 and Shredder

>
>Strongest ever chess program?(including Deep Blue)
>

Hydra

>Current strongest program?

Hydra. Shredder 9 is the strongest program you can buy.

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

Shredder and Chesstiger

>
>who will win the IPCCC?

Shredder or Hydra

>
>is TSCP on 4*2.4 GHZ better than Crafty on pentium 1 300 MHZ?
>
>Strongest open source program?(Crafty,Fruit,Slowchess,Phalanx...)

Crafty

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

Ferret

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

Hydra hardware, then Opteron, then FX-5(x) for single chip cpu.

>
>Strongest available free engine

??? many strong program. Have not tested them all.

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

Prodeo.

>
>chess server you prefer?chessbase,ICC,FICS

WCN

>
>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

Don't know ...


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

Shredder Vs. Kasparov

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

Elo points.

>
>give your estimated elo's for
shredder 9  2700+
Fritz 8 Bilbao 2700+
Shredder 8 2700+
Shredder Classic 1.2 2600+
Shredder 7.04 2700+
Junior 9 2700+
>
>What's your rating on Chessbase Rated game(file->rated game menu)

2051 Off by 400 points to my otb of 22 years ago. My Last rated tournament.
Either I got much better or more likely the rating is way way off. :)





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