Something changed dramatically after Fritz 10. Some say it (v11-13) became more 'Rybka-like'.TShackel wrote:Thanks for doing that. Yea, Sugar is very similar to stockfish and not quite as strong as stockfish. However it's stronger than other stockfish clones like Don. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know the exact similarities or differences from the official stockfish and sugar. I'm debating if I should test sugar in some tournaments or not. I really like original engines that earned their way up to being the strongest in the world. But I understand that stockfish was derived from glaurung as well.consen wrote:GUNNARPC, Blitz 1m+1s 0
1 Stockfish 231014 64 SSE4.2 +6 +37/=177/-33 50,81% 125,5/247
2 Sugar v2.0d x64 SSE4.2 -6 +33/=177/-37 49,19% 121,5/247
I know that Houdini is influenced by ippolit, but I consider Houdini, Komodo, and Stockfish as distinctly different from one another, and it's nice to have very strong engines be very different from one another, but when you get lots of clones of the same engines you get all these strong engines with with the same character and that gets annoying. Fritz too is another great original program at least through version 13.0, now 14.0 is a pandix engine. Even if Fritz is not as strong as the other top engines now, it still offeres it's own distinct character, and I remember Fritz 7.0 was the only engine that could see all three king's indian theory moves (in the Nc6 d5 Ne7 variation), of b4, Ne1, and Nd2. Fritz 7.0 could see all three. All the top engines now can't see any, except for houdini whoh sees Ne1. So I love very different original programs that are very strong. But with the internet, and computer chess forums, and wiki programming, and open source engines, the trend is to get the top immediately by basing your work off of somebody else.
Thanks again.
Tim.
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