Wasp 3.00 available ...

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

Wasp 3.00 by John Stanback is available on my site.
Information by John can be found on the detail page.

A bench is inlcuded and around 50 Elo more.
Have fun with it!

Frank's Chess Page
http://www.amateurschach.de

Best
Frank

At the moment I lost my interest on TalkChess.
The new forum style is bad, most of discussions to LZero very boring for myself.
Better times will come, I am surre!

[AdminX]

You and Stan rock Frank!

PS: That is a gorgeous chessboard!

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi,

yes, my main board for self playing games (king size is 9,5).
In the last year I updated my complete chess material. I like the DGT Polgar pieces also (not the orginal board for the pieces from DGT). So I am using the DGT Polgar pieces on a chess board from Spain.

Absolutely sure, that with a good board the player like, the own level in Elo is a bit higher. A bit crazy this comment but it's my own feeling. In reality I am a perfectionist with such things (Arena, rating list, my databases I offer for downlaod, Interviews, Reviews the TMET site … all what I do). Often this isn't good, because all is clearly more work for me.

But I have fun with it!!
And my women also. My women like all the older chess computers from Mephisto so much. She like to play vs. Rebell 5.0 by Ed and different draws she made in the last months.

On TMet site you can see the other baord I am speaking about. The DGT Polgar pieces are really great. In my opinion best chess material comes from India at first and Spain as second. Very good material can be found in England too.

Thanks for your comments!

Best
Frank

Yes, with Japanese & French flags (Chess program Senpai).
On my i5 Notebook I lost with 1.5 : 8.5 vs. Senpai in times, I made the pics.
No chance, 2x a fast draw and in one game after a great attack by myself I can't win the endgame.
Chess programs are to strong for us, not the older chess computers. I will play vs. all of the older chess computers I have in the next months.

[Dann Corbit]

Big fun.
I got my copy

[pferd]

Thanks for adding a linux version.

Very much appreciated

[Graham Banks]

Thanks John and Frank.

[matejst]

Thank you, both Stan and Frank! Great news!

[criko]

will be around 20 ELo not more.
1480 games played so far.

21) Wasp 3.0 2796 : 1440 (+266,=426,-748), 33.3 %

vs. : games ( +, =, -), (%) : Diff, SD, CFS (%)
Stockfish 9 : 20 ( 0, 1, 19), 2.5 : -601, 11, 0.0
Houdini 6.03 : 20 ( 0, 0, 20), 0.0 : -574, 10, 0.0
Komodo 11.3.1 : 20 ( 0, 2, 18), 5.0 : -540, 10, 0.0
Stockfish 8 : 20 ( 0, 3, 17), 7.5 : -530, 10, 0.0
Fire 6.1 : 20 ( 0, 4, 16), 10.0 : -336, 10, 0.0
Deep Shredder 13 : 20 ( 0, 5, 15), 12.5 : -309, 9, 0.0
Fizbo 2.0 : 20 ( 3, 3, 14), 22.5 : -261, 9, 0.0
Andscacs 0.93 : 20 ( 1, 3, 16), 12.5 : -224, 9, 0.0
Gull 3.0 : 20 ( 0, 7, 13), 17.5 : -220, 9, 0.0
Fritz 16 : 20 ( 2, 5, 13), 22.5 : -213, 10, 0.0
Critter 1.6a : 20 ( 4, 7, 9), 37.5 : -197, 10, 0.0
Booot 6.2 : 20 ( 3, 7, 10), 32.5 : -191, 10, 0.0
Equinox 3.30 : 120 ( 9, 37, 74), 22.9 : -182, 9, 0.0
Mars 3.35 : 120 ( 13, 35, 72), 25.4 : -176, 10, 0.0
Chiron 4 : 120 ( 16, 36, 68), 28.3 : -174, 9, 0.0
Deep Rybka 4 : 120 ( 17, 39, 64), 30.4 : -148, 10, 0.0
Senpai 2.0 : 120 ( 24, 40, 56), 36.7 : -99, 9, 0.0
Texel 1.07 : 120 ( 25, 31, 64), 33.8 : -94, 10, 0.0
Hannibal 1.7 : 120 ( 23, 38, 59), 35.0 : -92, 10, 0.0
Arasan 20.5 : 120 ( 38, 44, 38), 50.0 : -28, 10, 0.2
Hiarcs 14 : 120 ( 39, 41, 40), 49.6 : +4, 10, 67.5
Naum 4.6 : 120 ( 49, 38, 33), 56.7 : +9, 10, 81.5

[Dokterchen]

Great news! Thanks!

[matejst]

From what I have seen so far, Wasp 3.00 seems at least two plies faster than the previous version. The evaluation remained quite reasonable and human-like, and the configuration file is an excellent idea. So far, Frank's testing indicates a substantial Elo increase too. I miss only a learning function to be quite satisfied with the new Wasp. Thanks, John!