Author: George Speight
Date: 13:27:22 07/18/05
U mite be interested to know about List 512. Its free too. It will amaze u. But it has no opening book. So if u incorporate it into chessbase, use fritz 8 opeing book with it. Shredders and hiarcs are fine tuned fro their programs only, and the use of them with other programs will only downgrade the strength of the program. As to the other reply, I am not only interested in fritz and shredder and programs that cost money. I love fruit, pro deo, and list512, and actually find myself pulling for them to win. But u have to admit it catches ur attention when a freeware program does as well as it does ag. the top commercial ones. As for the hardware, I have access to 2 dozen winows pentium 4 xps. Dont own but 2 of them. They a ll hav 2.8ghz processors. I guess people could argue until the end of the world about the best time limit to use in tests, as some programs do better in 5 min. blitz than others. But life is short, and i could never run that many games at really long time controls. So i chose 1 hour each for all the engines to make their moves. You decide . As for books, i let shredder use shredders, fritz use fritz's and Fruit 2.1 use its book. It didnt seem to do any better with any other books i tried. As for ponder, i ran some tests and came to the conclusion that if u run shredder ag. fruit on 2 diff. computers so the perm. brains can be on, u get basically the same results as u do with an engine vs. engine match on the same computer with ponder off. On ur tests, if u are running thru chessbase, NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE TELLS YOU, 32 mb for 5 min. games, 128mb for 30 and 40 min. games, 256 mb for 1 hour each games, and as high as ur ram total will allow for longer games. Forget the ridiculous formulas. As per the agendas- i am really skeptical when it comes to a lot of these rating lists. Dont know who put them out and which programs they may or may not be trying to push. Im sure some of them are legit.Nothing i have said is written in blood, and if im wrong i dont suppose the world will come to an end. Later, pal
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