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Subject: Re: Looking for weack engines

Author: Slobodan R. Stojanovic

Date: 07:23:45 10/01/05

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On October 01, 2005 at 05:17:16, JYL57 wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>As a father of three children playing chess from time to time I decided
>yesterday to organise a internal family challenge againt weak engines. This
>challenge is supposed to renew interest in chess during World championship in
>Argentina ! ;-)
>My search of those engines in CSS ratinglists or WBEC was a little disapointing
>yesterday evening. Still to strong !
>
>In fact I would like to propose a challenge with reference to ELO level and I
>was  looking for engines playing in the level 1000 - 1400.
>
> So my questions :
> 1) How to find them ? (easy I suppose)
> 2) How to parameter them in order to be as close as possible of my target ELO ?
>
>Thanks beforehand for your help,
>
>JYL57,
>Happy owner of an old Mephisto II
>
>P.S : My attempt yesterday to decrease Fruit 2.1 to 1% of force and allow only 1
>Mo of hachtable and 1 sec of time reflexion resulted in the best announcing mat
>in 8 to my son ! :-((



Try

Weak engines:

CPP1 0.1038	 - I think it is also a move generator - the weakest one
PreChess 0.78
BabyChess 11.1
ChadChess 0.15
LaMoSca 0.10  - doesn´t know about "en passant" rule
Pyotr Novice 2.6
Pyotr Amateur 0.6
Gargamella 0.0.1
T-Rex 0.91
Yawce 0.16
Xadreco

Stronger WB engines that can be weaken in ini file:

Phalanx XXII,
Ufim
Delfi
Frenzee
Beowulf
Horizon



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