Just for fun, if you could only take five chess engines with you to a desert island which ones would they be?
Mine: Hiarcs, ProDeo, Spark, Anaconda, and Yace
Very tough to only choose five, but that is your challenge
Desert Island Chess Engines
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Re: Desert Island Chess Engines
Hiarcs, Junior, Genius, The Baron and my old Fidelity Excellence.Kirk wrote:Just for fun, if you could only take five chess engines with you to a desert island which ones would they be?
Mine: Hiarcs, ProDeo, Spark, Anaconda, and Yace
Very tough to only choose five, but that is your challenge
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Re: Desert Island Chess Engines
Yace, Romichess, Olithink, Hermann, Daydreamer.Kirk wrote:Just for fun, if you could only take five chess engines with you to a desert island which ones would they be?
Mine: Hiarcs, ProDeo, Spark, Anaconda, and Yace
Very tough to only choose five, but that is your challenge
Miguel
PS: and I will rewrite Gaviota, to cheat and have 6.
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Unless this desert island has electricity, you better take a lot of batteries.Kirk wrote:Just for fun, if you could only take five chess engines with you to a desert island which ones would they be?
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Re: Desert Island Chess Engines
Houdini, Robbolito, Rybka, Stockfish, Shredder.
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My engine was quite strong till I added knowledge to it.
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Junior 7 or 8ZX all the way (that one which made the bishop sack in the face of Kasparov, even today it is not known if the sack was too speculative).
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Ah Lad, use your imaginationDavid Dahlem wrote:Unless this desert island has electricity, you better take a lot of batteries.Kirk wrote:Just for fun, if you could only take five chess engines with you to a desert island which ones would they be?
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"Or, for example, a team of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devised a creative way to power a supercomputer for 20 minutes by pedaling a stationary bicycle hooked to a generator."
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Re: Desert Island Chess Engines
Naum, Spark, Thinker, CSTal, and Daydreamer.Kirk wrote:Just for fun, if you could only take five chess engines with you to a desert island which ones would they be?
Mine: Hiarcs, ProDeo, Spark, Anaconda, and Yace
Very tough to only choose five, but that is your challenge
Peter
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For hardcore engine collectors just choosing just five is painful!michiguel wrote:Yace, Romichess, Olithink, Hermann, Daydreamer.Kirk wrote:Just for fun, if you could only take five chess engines with you to a desert island which ones would they be?
Mine: Hiarcs, ProDeo, Spark, Anaconda, and Yace
Very tough to only choose five, but that is your challenge
Miguel
PS: and I will rewrite Gaviota, to cheat and have 6.
I see a couple of people have chosen Daydreamer which I have not looked at. What makes it unique?
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Crafty, Hiarcs, Comet, Gandalf, Phalanx.
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