Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 15:19:52 07/31/99
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On July 29, 1999 at 20:57:36, Michel Chassey wrote: >There is one approach to describing a chess program that we don't see too >often : it is a quality of a chess program that it will perform in a >decent manner when operating from lesser (outdated ?) hardware. From reading >the posts here you'd think that there is no way to get anything done on a >slower machine. >Just my opinion :) > Good point. In this category, I would nominate Genius, Fritz, and WChess. Genius has a high quality selective search and a positional style which makes it play well and see deep enough on slower hardware. Fritz and WChess also do well because they are root processors: heavy one-time eval combined with a super-fast search make for great play on slow processors. It's no surprise that these program authors (Lang, Morsch, and Kittinger) write the engines for today's top rated dedicated computers (Mephisto, Kasparov, and Novag). Ian
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