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Subject: Re: Spike 1.1 is showing new strength as the best FREE UCI program :-)

Author: Russell

Date: 07:18:13 03/02/06

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On March 02, 2006 at 03:32:34, Per Jørgensen wrote:

>On March 01, 2006 at 23:10:16, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>http://www.uciengines.de/Tournaments/UCI_League_A/uci_league_a.html
>
>Hello Jorge!
>
>No doubt, Spike 1.1 is a great and very strong Free-ware engine. It's about
>40-60 ELO-points stronger than the previous version (Spike 1.0a Mainz). However,
>I wouldn't say that Spike 1.1 is the best free-ware engine. Take a look at some
>computer ratinglists and you'll see that Toga II 1.1a still is somewhat
>stronger. Here my own ratinglist:
>
>   Program                    Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws
>
>  1 Hiarcs 10                 2760   36  36   280    63.9 %   2660   27.1 %
>  2 Fruit 2.2.1               2758   35  35   280    63.7 %   2660   29.6 %
>  3 Toga II 1.1a              2744   34  34   280    61.6 %   2661   33.9 %
>  4 Fritz 9                   2724   35  35   280    58.8 %   2663   28.2 %
>  5 Shredder 9                2723   35  35   280    58.6 %   2663   28.6 %
>  6 Spike 1.1                 2704   34  34   280    55.7 %   2664   32.9 %
>  7 The King 3.33             2662   34  34   280    49.3 %   2667   31.4 %
>  8 SmarThink 1.00            2655   34  34   280    48.2 %   2668   31.4 %
>  9 Ktulu 7.5                 2652   36  36   280    47.7 %   2668   23.9 %
> 10 Pro Deo 1.1               2626   35  36   280    43.8 %   2670   25.4 %
> 11 Loop List 600             2610   36  36   280    41.2 %   2671   23.2 %
> 12 Gandalf 6.0               2610   35  35   280    41.2 %   2671   28.9 %
> 13 Naum 1.91                 2604   33  34   280    40.4 %   2671   33.6 %
> 14 Glaurung 1.0.1            2594   37  37   280    38.9 %   2672   22.1 %
> 15 Ruffian 2.1.0             2580   35  35   280    37.0 %   2673   30.4 %
>
>I'm sure that if this tournament which your link leads to would continue for a
>long time then Toga II 1.1a would create an increasing gab to Spike 1.1 (and the
>other engines). In fact, there is another free-ware engine which is even
>stronger than Toga II 1.1a; Rybka 1.0 beta. Having said all this I would like to
>emphasize that Spike 1.1 is a great engine and we should all be glad that it is
>(still) a free-ware engine.
>
>Regards
>Per
Your rating is a bit off I must say. Toga never did impressed me in blitz
compared with other engines.



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