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Subject: Re: Looking for weack engines

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 17:04:56 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 ! :-((

For the family - Chessmaster might be an interesting choice.

It lets you create tournaments with human and engines,  It has many weaker
personalities to choose from.

Chessmaster 9000 is the one to get - it has a much better default GUI layout
then CM10K the engine difference is imperceptible to most players and it will be
cheaper.  About $20 delivered.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006663Z/002-4060977-0890465?v=glance

Best,

Michael



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