Author: Gerrit Reubold
Date: 14:02:53 01/09/00
Go up one level in this thread
Hi Graham, On January 08, 2000 at 11:32:53, Graham Laight wrote: >I have tried Bringer - and I like it! Thanks for telling me about it. > >It took less than 3 minutes to download, and, after unzipping it, I could fire >it up and play it! > >I played it myself and was comprehensively beaten. > >The following games were all played on an HP Onmibook 4100, 266 Mhz, NT4, and I >have not downloaded Bringer's optional "extra large" opening book, because I am >personally not very interested in openings (which is often a grave weakness in >my game!). > >Against Kasp2100, it went into the late middlegame a pawn ahead, and 2100 >cleverly created a passed pawn in the centre. Before it was able to do anything, >though, Bringer swapped off the pieces, then created it's own passed pawn on the >a-file - but this passed pawn was out of reach of 2100's king. I resigned on >behalf of 2100. > >I then tried it against 2 DOS programs on my 200 Mhz PC (this is probably fair, >because I assume that NT steals a lot of processor time): > >Against CS-Tal '96, Bringer kept on raising it's evaluation move by move, then >dropping back down to almost equal again! The game was very exciting, and the >suspense was almost unbearable. Suddenly, Bringer's evaluation went high, and >eventually it demonstrated why it was so confident by comprehensively winning. > >Finally, I tried it against Rebel Decade 2, assuming that this strong program >would beat it easily. Wrong again! Bringer's evaluation rose high long before >Decade's moved away from close to equal. Bringer won the game brilliantly. Even >more astonishingly - Decade 2 consistently used much more time to select its >moves. > >Against all 3 strong programs, it always seemed to evaluate the position better >than they did, and saw the evaluation changes sooner than they did. It seemed to >have a better understanding of the positions. Good results for the Bringer, however, don't overestimate its strength after a few games. Playing it against the top engines (commercial and freeware) will give you different results. > >There are a few changes I would personally like to see in this program: > >* Should recognise draw by repetition. When tinkering with it myself, we moved >back and forth through the same position several times, and it did not flag the >draw Someone else (Peter Berger) mentioned this some days ago, unfortunately, I am unable to reproduce it. Bringer claims a draw, both when playing it in its own GUI and as a winboard engine. How do I reproduce the bug? BTW, was Bringers score 0.00 while repeating the moves? > >* An "autoplay" option would be nice Do you mean a possibility for Bringer playing a position agains Bringer? I had this once, broke it a year ago and didn't care about repairing it: the "Computer-Computer" button is disabled. I don't think this feature is important with the possibility to interface Bringer to other engines per Autoplayer or per Winboard. Is it important? > >* I would like to see the squares flash when the computer moves. I don't like >having to look at the move list to see what the opponent has done. I wish more >programs would flash the squares being moved to/from like Hiarcs can I thought about small "recent-squares-indicators", instead of flashing the squares. Maybe a thin frame or a dot. If I have time, I will implement this for the next version. > >Overall though, I wholeheartedly approve of this nice program! > >-g Greetings, Gerrit
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.