To make the thing practical: If we accept, to you are available for a Freestyle tournament (60 m / + 15s) three quadcore-PC's and the newest versions of the following engines (all of them with sufficient RAM and tablebases):
a) Fritz
b) Hiarcs
c) Junior
d) Naum
e) Rybka
f) Shredder
g) Toga
h) Zappa
i) N.N. (any other engine)
Fritz as single processor engine, all others multi processor versions.
Which of these engines would you use as your main engines and how would you split them on three quadcore-PC's?
It’s up to you to select as many of these engines as you like (also older versions). You may also, for example, run your favorite engine on all three PC’s with different settings or in one case in multi variation mode and in another in single variation mode.
Example 1:
PC 1: Shredder
PC 2: Rybka
PC 3: Zappa
Simplified reply: "f - e - h"
Example 2:
only Rybka
Simplified reply: "e"
Example 3:
PC 1: Hiarcs
PC 2: Toga + Fritz
PC 3: N.N.
Simplified reply: "b - g/a - i"
To start the debate (and “outing” myself
), my choice right now would be: "e - g - h". Occasionally I would also use another engine.
If enough prospective customers take part in the survey, I will report later, to sum up, about that. (The survey is also running in CSS-site.) You may inform me of your preferences or of other suggestions also by email under: freestyle-nl@web.de
Besides, I added an article on the CSS-site – written in German - about the short history of Freestyle Chess and some aspects concerning Advanced Chess and centaurs. This will also appear in English later on (“Freestyle – the Formula 1 in Chess”); may be also on CB-site. Here is the link to the German version:
http://www.computerschach.de/index.phpo ... 5&Itemid=1
All about the 8th Freestyle Tournament (start: April 11-13) is to be found on the same site.
Best regards,
Arno Nickel
