I do not know if there is a historical championship list for CCRL or CEGT, but that would be extremely useful to know which engine is strongest, historically.
Far better even than TCEC.
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Uri Blass wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 7:34 pm
IPPOLIT, released on May 2, 2009
RobboLito released in September 2009
Igorrit released in January 2010
IvanHoe released in January 2010
I am not sure if part of them or all of them were the top chess engines before houdini(I remember in the beginning claims that the ippolit is good at short time control but have problems at longer time control because of bugs)
Houdini1.0 is from may 2010 and I am not sure if it became the best engine before Houdini1.5
that is from December 15, 2010 or
houdini1.5a from January 15, 2011
1956-1958 MANIAC I - Tube supercomputer: Could play by rules, in rare ocassion could win newbie
1966 Mac Hack - "Multi-Level Access Computer" or "Machine-Aided Cognition" - transistor supercomputer PDP-6 by DEC company: participate in tournament against humans, won newbie, assigned Elo=1243
1966 Mac Hack VI: won human player with 1510 Elo in tournament
1976 Chess x.x - CPU IC supercomputer by Control Data Corporation CDC Cyber: won tournament, assigned elo=1722
1977 Chess 4.6: first win against 2000+, assigned elo = 2040
1981 Cray Blitz supercomputer, first win against master (elo=2262) in tournament. assigned elo=2258
1988 HiTech supercomputer: first win against IM (2845) in tournament. assigned elo=2300+
1989 Deep Thought, IBM supercomputer, first win against GM (Bent Larsen), in tournament. assigned elo=2745
1990 HiTech supercomputer. First time in a 5 years of tournament "Human vs machines" machine won a game
1994 Chess Genius, first win against wolrd champion (Kasparov) in a blitz, elo=2795. First serious success on a home computer (Intel Pentium)
1995 HIARCS, supercomputer. First time in a 10 years of tournament "Human vs machines" machine won a tournament
1996 Deep Blue, dedicated (FPGA) IBM supercomputer - first game win over world champion (Kasparov)
1997 Deep Blue, dedicated (FPGA) IBM supercomputer - defeated world champion (Kasparov) in 6 game match
1998 Rebel - win over vice-champion in a 6 game match (Anand) using Intel Pentium PC
2004 Fritz 8, and Deep Junior on dedicated chess processor Hydra - win tournament against team of FIDE former world champions
2006 Rebel - win over world champion (Kramnik) in a 6 game match using Intel Pentium PC
2009 - Hiarcs and Pocket Fritz win a tournament using single core ARM processor @ 500 MHz (20 000 nodes/second)
2000-2005: Shredder, Fritz era
December 2005 - February 2011 - Rybka total domination
2011-2018 - Houdini/Komodo/Stockfish era
1997-2013 - Junior domination in Special Olympics (ICGA WC)
JohnW wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 6:57 pm
Just curious if anyone happens to know..
Rybka comes to mind.
After Rybka comes to mind ippolit that there are claims that they were illegal and I did not use them.
looking at wikipedia for ippolit I find
IPPOLIT, released on May 2, 2009
RobboLito released in September 2009
Igorrit released in January 2010
IvanHoe released in January 2010
I am not sure if part of them or all of them were the top chess engines before houdini(I remember in the beginning claims that the ippolit is good at short time control but have problems at longer time control because of bugs)
Houdini1.0 is from may 2010 and I am not sure if it became the best engine before Houdini1.5
that is from December 15, 2010 or
houdini1.5a from January 15, 2011
That is correct Uri.
Ippolit, Robbolito and Ivanhoe were the strongest from May 2009 to May 2010 when Rybka 4 appeared. Then it was neck and neck between Ivanhoe and Rybka 4 till Houdini 1.5 appeared in on December 15, 2010.
yurikvelo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:13 pm
1956-1958 MANIAC I - Tube supercomputer: Could play by rules, in rare ocassion could win newbie
1966 Mac Hack - "Multi-Level Access Computer" or "Machine-Aided Cognition" - transistor supercomputer PDP-6 by DEC company: participate in tournament against humans, won newbie, assigned Elo=1243
1966 Mac Hack VI: won human player with 1510 Elo in tournament
A nice list for sure, but where is Kaissa and where is Sargon from Dan and Kathe Spracklen (1978 Winner of the West Coast Computer Fair)? Both were probably stronger in their time than all other programs in their class although for Sargon it is not sure it was the strongest microprocessor program. It only ran on the Z80 microprocessor of course which by that time I think was just about 1 MHz. The CDC 7600 (Chess 4.6, although Chess 4.6 maybe ran in 1977 already on a CDC 176 which was a successor to the CDC 6600 and 7600) was many thousands of dollars worth of equipment, I remember seeing the CDC 7600 -or CDC 176, could be they already had that in Groningen as well- in Groningen in het Rekencentrum there in, I think, 1980, it was a very impressive sight.
Kaissa was a World Champion finishing in front of Chess 4.0 in Stockholm 1974
1976 Chess x.x - CPU IC supercomputer by Control Data Corporation CDC Cyber: won tournament, assigned elo=1722
1977 Chess 4.6: first win against 2000+, assigned elo = 2040)
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