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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