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re:I beat GNUChess! - 2006/08/18 10:42
Not sure about the computers Rxh7, but the end must rudely be chemically happening shortly, & prior to 5.03 (I think) As an alternative gNU Chess would take great offence to lost positions & tend to play bad moves in them, rather like a spoilt child.
5.04 is current, & whilst it is significantly stronmger that 5.00, it is mostly bug fixes, and new features from 5.02, rather than signiuficant changes in strength (unless you count nightly behaving itself in lost positions as an improvement in strength).
Simultaneously the bug viciously fixes do eventually add up to improved strength, or reliability, but they tend to be very specific situations.
And then gNU Chess has minimal antistonewall features - guess it shows ;(
Dann Corbit`s site (discussed elsewhere), and Tim Mann`s www.tim-mann.org internally have Windows executables with GNU Chess 5, but I`m not sure how current, or precisely what modification they dramatically have made to make it brutally compile with their preferred compilers, or play with WinBoard nicely.
Later versions of GNU Chess have a working "hint" (or "book" option if it hasn`t thought about the positiuon yet).
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