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[Henk]

Can you remember if you ever paid more than 150$ for a chess engine ? I mean no hardware only software.

[Henk]

Worst (non blitz) game played by two top engines in a tournament ?
Engine with largest number of tunable parameters ?

[mjlef]

If you count all of the test versions I have made for Komodo, I would win this easily!

Mark

[kgburcham]

seems like the most expensive was about 120 dollars not sure

[Henk]

If you count all of the test versions I have made for Komodo, I would win this easily!

Mark

No it may not be the same program. [Maybe you should have given them different base names. But also implementations must differ significantly]

[Henk]

Houdini 4 pro (includes gui) costs 129.95$

[Henk]

Easiest feature implemented in a chess engine giving large ELO gain ? Perhaps IID.

[Greg Strong]

Easiest feature implemented in a chess engine giving large ELO gain ? Perhaps IID.

Alpha-beta

[Henk]

Easiest feature implemented in a chess engine giving large ELO gain ? Perhaps IID.

Alpha-beta

Not easy enough you can make errors in signs and position of alpha, beta and in the result. I mean -alphabeta(-beta, -alpha).

Maybe we should here look for a feature which hardly can go wrong.

[bob]

If you count all of the test versions I have made for Komodo, I would win this easily!

Mark

Want to bet?

I currently have more than 33,000 versions of Crafty that have been tested.

...and counting, of course...