Which is the maddest, craziest engine?

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Which is the maddest, craziest engine?

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Which is the maddest, craziest engine?

It must be stable and usable for infinite analysis within ChessBase; so probably UCI, preferably not WB.

I have all the strong engines I want: Rybka, Zappa, Shredder, Hiarcs...

Now I want something with its own logic and very individual playing style.

Not too weak, just too wild.
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Aggressive engines that spring to mind are earlier Juniors, The Baron (1.7.0 more so than 1.8.1), Amateur 2.82 and Sage 2.2a.
I'm sure there are others I can come up with after further thought.
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CS-Tal is great fun to play against. Ed Schroder once said that it felt more like a game of poker than a game of chess.
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towforce wrote:CS-Tal is great fun to play against. Ed Schroder once said that it felt more like a game of poker than a game of chess.
Neither UCI nor Winboard, so I doubt if the OP can use it.
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Graham Banks wrote:Aggressive engines that spring to mind are earlier Juniors, The Baron (1.7.0 more so than 1.8.1), Amateur 2.82 and Sage 2.2a.
I'm sure there are others I can come up with after further thought.
Yes Junior 7 was crazy. :D
Quark 2.35, Tao 5.3 but we should not forget Chessmaster(The King) engine, that can be parameterized to produce personalities with amazing (attacking) styles!
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Marek Soszynski wrote:Which is the maddest, craziest engine?

It must be stable and usable for infinite analysis within ChessBase; so probably UCI, preferably not WB.
Using Wb2Uci you can have a Winboard engine to play under Chessbase GUI easily and analyze easily and engine to be stable.
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Marek Soszynski wrote:Which is the maddest, craziest engine?

It must be stable and usable for infinite analysis within ChessBase; so probably UCI, preferably not WB.

I have all the strong engines I want: Rybka, Zappa, Shredder, Hiarcs...

Now I want something with its own logic and very individual playing style.

Not too weak, just too wild.
Here is a list of all the UCI engines:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCI_Engines.html

'Mad' and 'crazy' are hard to quantify.

These are the strongest UCI engines with 4 CPUs:
Rybka 2.3.2a 64 4CPU
Zappa Mexico X64 4CPU
Deep Shredder 11 x64 4CPU
Naum 2.2 x64 4CPU
HIARCS 11.2 MP 4CPU
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George Tsavdaris wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:Aggressive engines that spring to mind are earlier Juniors, The Baron (1.7.0 more so than 1.8.1), Amateur 2.82 and Sage 2.2a.
I'm sure there are others I can come up with after further thought.
Yes Junior 7 was crazy. :D
Quark 2.35, Tao 5.3 but we should not forget Chessmaster(The King) engine, that can be parameterized to produce personalities with amazing (attacking) styles!
Quark is Winboard and not UCI.
I do like Quark's style and my favorite computer chess game of all time was Quark verses Pharaon (or maybe it was Zchess, but for sure it was a Frank Zibi engine). It was even an Orangutan game.
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I would say that later versions of Junior are rather crazy too ;)
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playjunior wrote:I would say that later versions of Junior are rather crazy too ;)
Is there a UCI version of Junior?