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[Tony Thomas]

Why is it that you always start threads without providing any kind of proof John? True that Crafty lagged behind for a while, but it seem to have caught up with a lot of engines. If you want to get the true strength of crafty use a 64bit version with ponder on. Here is the data from the web's premier tournament aka WBEC. If you look at the history, you can see that previous public version 19.20 was demoted to first division and that the newer version was able to make it back to the premier and it is not facing any kind of relegation. My testing also shows that crafty has improved about 50 points from the 19.20 series, if you want me to post the data, I will post that as well. Below listed are the 24 of the strongest chess engines available(some only for a select few) counting out Fritz and Junior.