Crafty- Still the best by far?

[Aaron]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Aaron am 19 Januar 2000 05:30:29:
When I started messing around with winboard engines, My impression was that crafty was the most well known and probably strongest engine for free. However I was surprised at how far ahead it was compared to the others..
At Blitz settings 300s ,8 MB hash each(maybe I should give 16)
,Tablebases off
Crafty1705 Beat
1)Lgol 2.0 (Combination:OFF) 4-2
2)Exchess311 6-0
3)Anmon502 3-0 (Crafty was black in all 3!)
4)CometB12 4.5-1.5
5)TCB045? 4.5-1.5
6)Phalnx22 4.5-1.5
Lgol seems to give the most resistance, I'm disappointed with TCB which is supposed to be a monster at Blitz.
Are there any other winboard engines I should try? Arsan53 maybe, and SOS..Unfortunately I can;t get SOS to work..Gromit perhaps.
I've also heard of Insomanic? is that freely available? I would also love to test out the newest versions of Lampchop, Patzer
Also is Bionic a crafty clone?
Hmm I guess I'm going to have to use the commerical programs I own Fritz6 to try to smash Crafty!!
Another interesting thing, In the games, often I find Crafty on the side with Queens vers 2 rooks. This happened three times in the macth against Lgol. Crafty won twice in that position and drew once (Though I think Lgol should have won that one in a crazy Queen and 2 pawns vers 2 Rooks and Bishop situation )
Also Crafty seems to play extremly well as Black, winning quite a share of it

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Pete Galati am 19 Januar 2000 08:30:42:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Crafty- Still the best by far? geschrieben von:/posted by: Aaron am 19 Januar 2000 05:30:29:

When I started messing around with winboard engines, My impression was that crafty was the most well known and probably strongest engine for free. However I was surprised at how far ahead it was compared to the others..
At Blitz settings 300s ,8 MB hash each(maybe I should give 16)
,Tablebases off
Crafty1705 Beat
1)Lgol 2.0 (Combination:OFF) 4-2
2)Exchess311 6-0
3)Anmon502 3-0 (Crafty was black in all 3!)
4)CometB12 4.5-1.5
5)TCB045? 4.5-1.5
6)Phalnx22 4.5-1.5
Lgol seems to give the most resistance, I'm disappointed with TCB which is supposed to be a monster at Blitz.
Are there any other winboard engines I should try? Arsan53 maybe, and SOS..Unfortunately I can;t get SOS to work..Gromit perhaps.
I've also heard of Insomanic? is that freely available?
I would also love to test out the newest versions of Lampchop, Patzer
Also is Bionic a crafty clone?
Hmm I guess I'm going to have to use the commerical programs I own Fritz6 to try to smash Crafty!!
Another interesting thing, In the games, often I find Crafty on the side with Queens vers 2 rooks. This happened three times in the macth against Lgol. Crafty won twice in that position and drew once (Though I think Lgol should have won that one in a crazy Queen and 2 pawns vers 2 Rooks and Bishop situation )
Also Crafty seems to play extremly well as Black, winning quite a share of it

Gromit is a great program, people are saying that Gromit gets stronger at longer time controls (relative to other programs). SOS wants more hashtables than I can give it, I can't use SOS either.
It's not available for download, I'm not happy about that.
Lambchop, great freeware http://www.caverock.co.nz/~peter/chess.htm Patzer isn't available, I'm also not happy about that.
Yes, it's not even thinly disguised, very much a Crafty Clone.
In a small tournament that I just ran at 60mvs/20min, Inmichess did better than Phalanx did against Crafty, TCB, and Comet, but when played against Phalanx itself, then Phalanx was better, so Phalanx fininshed ahead of Inmichess.
I think that Inmichess has a permanent home on my computer http://members.magnet.at/werner.inmann/
Pete


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