Author: George Speight
Date: 18:45:11 08/20/05
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On August 20, 2005 at 04:09:57, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On August 20, 2005 at 03:43:51, Ómar Skúlason wrote: > >>Hi Kurt! >> >>I read everything you publish in this forum with interest even though >>I have never commented on it. >>I think the testing of yours is one of the most trusthworthy if not the most >>trustworthy in the computer community. >>If we talk about this test then I find it not very exciting. Everybody knows >>that Shredder is the strongest of those participating but the order of those >>from 2 to 5 is of more curiosity. >>For me it is interesting to see that Chess Tiger is above Fritz and I >>guess that it is Fritz Bilbao. >>The Fruit test that you performed was very exciting and still is as >>Fruit is now the *hottest* engine around.( or is it Zappa now?) >>Short blitz tourneys don´t need to be "dumb" if you use reasonable >>time setting, say time with increment; 4+2 or 5+5 or what ever with +. >> >>Best regards, Ómar. > > Hi Omar > Nice to hear that you read everything I publish. As to Chess > Tiger I think it's still a very strong engine. In our tourney > we used Fritz 8.0.0.26 which seems somewhat weaker than Fritz 8 > Bilbao. Fruit 2.1 test is still running (Nunn2 tests) and the > latest test will relate to Toga II 1.0 of which first results > will be published today. And finally: you are right that blitz > games should always run with time increment. > Best regards > Kurt >Hi kurt In case you are interested the programmer/s of both say that Bilbao is approximately 50 elo points stronger. Regards, George
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