The better chess programs are hard to beat today. But they all have their
own particular strengs and weaknesses, I guess. How do the top programs differ in their style of play? Does anyone know anything about this?
On 24/11/2020 22:07, Hans wrote:
The better chess programs are hard to beat today. But they all have their
own particular strengs and weaknesses, I guess. How do the top programs
differ in their style of play? Does anyone know anything about this?
It is so long since there was any on topic postings here I think this deserves a reply. They are all basically supergrandmaster strength and
can only be beaten by specific and near perfect anti-computer play.
However, computer guided by a reasonable human player is stronger.
My personal favourite is Shredder because of its more human like play at
club level. Bitbases for perfect endgames being much smaller and faster
than Nalimov. The difference is less now SSDs are so cheap and fast.
Fritz is the oldest of the serious commercial chess programs in
continuous development. Fat Fritz the latest from that stable uses AI
and subverts the graphics card for computation. I don't have it (yet).
Be interested to know what people think of it.
Shredder has fallen by the wayside a little bit with no recent versions
since 13.
Of the free ones Crafty has the longest lineage and Stockfish and Komodo
are two of the strongest. Latest Komodo is no longer free.
It is interesting sometimes to see how their analyses of a position
differs and what things they can miss due to pruning heuristics.
Assuming here you are looking to perfect anti-computer play.
Freezerchess is also an interesting program if you are interested in
theory of endgame play and have time and disk space to use it.
http://www.freezerchess.com
This is another place where you might get more informed answers:
http://talkchess.com/forum3/index.php
The better chess programs are hard to beat today. But they all have their
own particular strengs and weaknesses, I guess. How do the top programs differ in their style of play? Does anyone know anything about this?
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