Engines styles

[Nicolas Normand]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Nicolas Normand at 08 January 2004 15:27:24:

hello ,
to complete the engine description on my site i'd would like your impression about the following engines ...
About their style of play , their agressivity , their positional knowledge....

Abrok 5.0 GER
Adamant 1.0 RUS
Alarm 0.92.4 SWE
Arasan 7.1 USA
Armageddon 2.247 POL
Asterisk 0.4a HUN
Averno 0.52 ESP
Ax 0.8 VIE
Beaches 1.5 USA
Belzebub 0.6 POL
Betsy 6.51 USA
BigLion 2.23f CMR
Black Bishop 0.9.2d GER
Booot 2.1 UKR
BremboCE 0.4 ITA
Bringer 1.9 GER
BSC 2.7 FRA
Butcher 1.42c POL
Cecir 3.0 URU
Cefap 0.72 SWE
Chezzz 1.0.3 DEN
Chispa 3.98d ARG
Cilian 4.13 SUI
ColChess 0.8 ENG
Crux 0.5j HUN
DanChess 1.0.3 ETH
Deuterium 1.02 PHI
Djinn 0.828 USA
Dorky 3.47 USA
Drunkenmaster 0.8 USA
Embracer 1.12 SWE
Enigma 1.1.1 POL
Esc 1.16 ITA
Faile 1.4 CAN
Fauce 0.41c ITA
Francesca mad 0.9 ENG
Frenzee 146 DEN
Gaviota 0.33 ARG
Genesis 2.0 ISR
Gothmog 0.43 NOR
Holmes 0.8.2v GER
Hoplite 1.4 FIN
Horizon 4.1 USA
Jester V0.83 USA
Kanguruh 1.62 AUS
KasparovX 1.0 PUR
King Of Kings 2.40 CAN
KKFChess 2.5.11p CHN
Knight Dreamer 3.2 SWE
Leila 0.53h ITA
Lightning 2.03 GER
LordKing 4 ITA
Matacz 0.92 POL
Merlin 1.2 HUN
Minichessai POL
minimardi 1.3 SWE
Mr Chess 2.1 SIN
Muriel 0.7 ESP
NagaSkaki 2.04 RSA
Nejmet 3.07 FRA
Nero 5.3 FIN
Neurosis 1.5 NED
NewRival 1.8.29 ENG
Patzer 3.61 GER
Pharaon 2.62 FRA
pierre17 CAN
PolarChess 1.3 NOR
Queen 2.41 NED
Rainman 0.75 SWE
Robin 0.983 POL
Scidlet 3.4 b5 NZL
Sharper v0.17 USA
Sjeng 12.13 BEL
Skaki 1.19 GRE
Slow Chess 2.85 USA
Small potato 0.61 AUS
SnailChess V4.013 SIN
Soldat 0.25b ITA
Taktix 2.23f CMR
ThorHammer 2.0 CRO
Trace 1.22 AUS
Tytan 2.44 POL
Uragano 0.43n ITA
Usurper 0.5 USA
WJChess 1.52 FRA
Zotron 2003-R7.5 USA

regards and thanks in advance
Nicolas


my site

[Kamil Przybyla]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Kamil Przybyla at 08 January 2004 22:22:36:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Engines styles geschrieben von: / posted by: Nicolas Normand at 08 January 2004 15:27:24:

Hello,
Enigma plays (or at least tries to play ) positionally,
with a human-like style. In my opinion, it is an
interesting opponent for human players. Of course,
there is not much knowledge implemented yet (especially
endgame), but I'm working on it. You can find more
information on my site.
Best wishes,
Kamil


Enigma

[Nicolas Normand]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Nicolas Normand at 08 January 2004 23:11:09:
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[Daniel]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Daniel at 09 January 2004 05:57:23:
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Hi
DanChess is aggresive player.
and it can crash any opponent short time control.
Please use the new version 1.04.the 1.03
may sometimes crash.
regards
daniel

[Tord Romstad]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Tord Romstad at 09 January 2004 11:41:00:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Engines styles geschrieben von: / posted by: Nicolas Normand at 08 January 2004 15:27:24:

hello ,
to complete the engine description on my site i'd would like your impression about the following engines ...
About their style of play , their agressivity , their positional knowledge....

Gothmog plays rather aggressively, but in a clumsy, primitive and often
very ugly way. It usually just directs its pieces in the general direction
of the opponent's king without much regard to coordination or positional
principles, and just hopes that the opportunity for some tactical shot
will arise.
Tactics is both a strength and a weakness. Gothmog is a slower searcher
than most engines, and tries to compensate by using its evaluation function
to prune unpromising branches of the game tree. The search tree is narrower
and deeper than in other engines. As a consequence, it finds some deep
tactics extremely quickly, but it also happens that rather simple combinations
are not found at all, even after hours of search.
The positional knowledge is almost non-existent. You'll have to look
really hard to find another engine which ends up with ugly pawn structures
and badly placed and uncoordinated pieces as often as Gothmog.
There is still almost no endgame knowledge in the engine, but I plan
to work on this in the near future.
Tord