Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 22:48:54 02/18/06
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On February 19, 2006 at 01:14:25, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >i am not a computer chess historian, but....based on what i've been reading here >in the last few months.... > >You've missed a chess revolution in the last year. The major chessbase >programs---hiarcs and fritz9---have dramatically increased in strength. They >have increased between 60 and 100 points. > > perhaps more importantly, independent programers are now challengine the big >chessbase engines. Fruit 2.2.1 plays beautiful, classical chess, and beats >fritz 9 at long time controls (see ssdf). Rybka came from seemingly nowhere, >plays like Tal (i'm told), and dominates all chess engines. The once feared >shreder 9 is, well, being shredded by fritz 9, fruit 2.2.1, rybka, and hiarcs. >Spike 1.1 has climbed to the top of the free engine group ranking, being perhaps >only second to toga 1.1. (a fruit derivative). You forgot HIARCS 10 which at the moment for me is beating a 64 bit ver. of Rybka > >There has been a dramatic increase in playing strength and i don't know if there >is an end in cite. Both fruit and shredder are comiong out with new versions >soon, and it is anybodies guess how strong they will be. Rybka is not even out >of beta version, and will soon have new endgame knowledge and will be even >stronger..... > >The next few months will be quite exciting > >Oh, and much of what i said above is controversial and will undoubtably inspire >some arguments from others :) > >best >Joseph
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