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Subject: Re: GNUChess

Author: Imran Hendley

Date: 17:43:46 01/05/00

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On January 05, 2000 at 20:28:28, Pete Galati wrote:

>On January 05, 2000 at 20:15:40, Imran Hendley wrote:
>
>>I am wondering about the strenght of GNUChess 5.0. I don't think it has ever
>>beaten me. I doubt that I'm any better than 1700, and I've played about 25 Blitz
>>games from G/3minutes to G/20minutes against it on my P200MMX with 32MB of RAM.
>>I seem to destroy it in every game. Is GNUChess just bad at Blitz? I see on
>>various pages that its rating is estimated at somewhere between 1800 and 2200.
>>Does anyone have any similar experience or ideas why this is happening?
>
>You can probably find a rating for it on Frank Quisinski's page
>http://www.in-trier.de/~quisinsky/index.htm   I think it may be a hair eaker
>than the old version.
>
>Are you using Dann's version or the one that comes with Winboard because
>Winboard now includes the v5.0 too, and do you have the opening book working?
>
>Pete

I'm using the one that came with Winboard 4.0.5 and yeah, the open book is
working. Maybe it's just bad at blitz, I'll try a long game tomorrow. I'll check
Frank's page too. Thanks.



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