Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:41:35 08/30/05
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On August 30, 2005 at 07:24:22, Bojan Radev wrote: >Hi Jorge, >And what in hell makes you put your money on a particular opening book with a >particular engine without testing!? >Don't fake yourself just because an opening book is named Main....you must test >and prove.... >Stay cool....think clear :-) As far as I know testing not by Jorge suggest that spike is the second best engine(not enough games to be sure but the candidates to be better than it are only spike list prodeo and Ruffian) http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/rangliste.html best 5 free engines(note that Fruit and Toga are not considered by me as different engines): 1)2 Fruit 2.1 2713 1)3 Toga II 1.0 2713 2)10 Spike 1.0 Mainz 2652 3)14 List 512 2630 4)15 Pro Deo 1.1 2630 5)free Ruffian1.05 at the same level of Prodeo and list based on http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/rating.dat 6)19 SOS 5 for Arena 2601 7)20 Glaurung Mainz 2600 8)21 Aristarch 4.50 2597 9)22 Pseudo 0.7c 2597 10)24 Naum 1.8 2592 11)25 SlowChess Blitz WV 2591 12)26 Pharaon 3.3 2589 13)29 Jonny 2.82 2580 14)30 Anaconda 2.0.1 2575 15)32 Scorpio 1.3 2574 16)33 WildCat 5 2570 17)34 Zappa 1.0 2570 I do not expect Zappa1.1 to be more than 50 elo better than Zappa1.0 so it is probably not one of the best 5 free engines. Uri
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