Re: Re: GNU chess version 1.2 - QUESTION

[Stuart Cracraft]

Yes -- there's a lot of room for growth in GNU 
Chess's strength. Modern 2GHZ processor's being
about 7x faster than 300mhz might accrue ~80 rating 
points for each doubling so about <3 doublings would
be 200 additional points.

Expect about 2300 FICS rating for a 2GHZ Pentium IV.

GNU on 2GHZ Pentium IV should play about Senior US
Master level, well below IM and GM but enough to
beat just about everybody who'd use it. The IM's and
GM's use other things or play each other.

> 
> From: Simon Waters <address@hidden>
> Date: 2002/12/27 Fri PM 04:20:52 EST
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: GNU chess version 1.2 - QUESTION
> 
> > Stuart Cracraft wrote:
> > 
> > I didn't know GNU Chess 1 was even in circulation
> > any more. That was written about 17 years ago
> > by me and I wanted to get it out of circulation
> > which is why John Stanback's program became
> > GNU Chess 2 through 4. However, these became
> > pedantically unreadable and unmaintainable
> > and non-valuable from an educational point of
> > view so GNU Chess 5 by Chua Kong Sian became
> > the new reality.
> 
> I think Apple are shipping GNU Chess with MacOS X where the
> version reported is the Apple GUI version 1.1 or 1.2. I'm trying
> to get some more information, as it seems to have castling
> problems not in the original GNU Chess 5 (or 4).
> 
> Apologies if this has been said in a later message already, but
> a week off for xmas and 400 messages to go.
> 
> GNU Chess 5 is scoring around 2100 rating at Blitz on FICS on
> 300MHz Pentiums, FICS ratings are slightly deflated compared to
> ELO. On the kind of processors Apples are using a few hundred
> extra points might accrue.
> 
> The next version should be substantially stronger, assuming we
> can iron out the bugs.
> 
>  Simon
> 
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