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Subject: Re: Which are the best five Free chess Programms?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 23:39:22 09/02/99

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On September 02, 1999 at 23:07:31, Pete Galati wrote:

>On September 02, 1999 at 16:24:52, Côme wrote:
>
>>Which are the best five Free chess Programms?
>>For me it's:
>>1)Crafty 16.16
>>2)Comet B05
>>3)Phalanx 21
>>4)Bionic 4.01
>>5)Goliath 2.05
>>But I want a Opinion of Specialists please;
>>Thank you for advance
>>Best Regards
>>Alexandre Côme
>
>It probably depends on what you mean by the best. First I would say that Crafty
>is definately the most versital, probably the strongest. Second I would point
>out that Bionic is nothing but a Crafty clone, but you know that, so I don't
>bother having Bionic Impact, for me, there's no paticular reason for having it.
>
>Amoung the programs left, Phalanx is by far my favorite, but that's getting down
>to subjective opinions because I think that Comet tests stronger in Winboard
>tournaments. Comet B05 is very good.
>
>If I had to pick 2 programs and not have any others I'd choose Crafty & Phalanx.
> They are very different behaving programs.
>
>Pete

The Crazy Bishop is interesting!

Terry



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