Strongest Toga-engine?

[ArmyBridge]

19_Toga II 1.4.1 SE 2839_248 games played
20_Toga II 3.1.2SE 2827_268 games played

Oh, and I think it's worth the mention that these Togas have a distinct playing style, so having them both is recommendable (Don't be fooled by the name, if you have Fruit and Cyclone I suggest having these 2 Togas as well.)

I Have them all baby

There are an other one, ChessMonster, I´ve test it the last weekend but dont look very strong

I forget Rocket,at least I read somewhere that is half Toga and half Rybka, the Toga family gown and becoming too chaotic one guy say to have developed a new Toga version (Toga Mara) that is extremely strong.
Regards

[Eelco de Groot]

I thought Rocket is a pure illegal Rykba 2.32a clone, Toga Mara is from the future I think.

Just played a draw against a new Rybka 3 with Toga 1.4 Checkov Beta 4 on Playchess, I think the operator was in a good mood, he offered a draw, but was probably more than 700 Playchess-points stronger even though he was playing on a single thread. Or maybe he was only interested in playing games against stronger Rykba opponents.

MOD.ctg got a draw is more accurate because it was really an opening duel, I think he was not playing with Jeroen's book! Toga Checkov 1.4 Beta 4 played on an Athlon 2009 MHz, I think maybe with only 64 Mb hash:

[Event "60m + 15s, rated"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.08.06"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Bigrein, Rybka 3 1-cpu"]
[Black "Ancalagon, Toga Checkov 1.4 Beta 4, based on Toga II 1.4 beta5c"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2538"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[Annotator "de Groot,E."]
[PlyCount "33"]
[EventDate "2008.08.06"]
[EventType "rapid"]
[TimeControl "3600+15"]

1. e4 {B/0 0} c6 {B/0 0} 2. d4 {B/0 0} d5 {B/0 0} 3. e5 {B/0 0} Bf5 {B/0 0} 4.
Nc3 {B/0 0} e6 {B/0 0} 5. Nf3 {B/0 0} Nd7 {B/0 0} 6. Bd3 {B/0 0} Bxd3 {B/0 0}
7. Qxd3 {B/0 0} Ne7 {B/0 0} 8. O-O {B/0 0} Ng6 {B/0 0} 9. Be3 {B/0 0} Be7 {
B/0 0} 10. a4 {B/0 0} Qa5 {B/0 0} 11. Bg5 {0.17/16 126} Qa6 {(Qd8) B/0 0} 12.
Qxa6 {0.31/12 3} bxa6 {0.10/13 46} 13. Bxe7 {(Le3) 0.22/16 44} Kxe7 {
0.10/15 166} 14. Rae1 {(h4) 0.01/17 72} Rab8 {-0.10/16 185} 15. b3 {0.00/21 0}
c5 {-0.05/16 153} 16. Re3 {0.00/20 0} Rhc8 {-0.08/15 113} 17. Ne2 {
(Lag: Av=0.16s, max=0.5s) 0.00/20 57} 1/2-1/2

[d]1rr5/p2nkppp/p3p1n1/2ppP3/P2P4/1P2RN2/2P1NPPP/5RK1 b - - 0 17

[Ovyron]

I think he was not playing with Jeroen's book!

Jeroen's Rybka 3 book hasn't been released yet.

[Eelco de Groot]

That is true, not earlier than 11th of August + shipping time. I hope it will be a success. What I meant was Jeroen would not be too happy with only a 0.00 score leaving book with White.

If I had had White the chance of avoiding a Sicilian would have been almost nill and I don't really know if Toga is any good with d4. So having Black was not so bad at all. Well I play only very occasionally, I had not let Toga play in more than a month. Another instance of Toga crashed just when kibitzing in Playchess and would not even load in playing mode, I have no idea why. Apologies to the players where I had to abort or had to play as Centaur without computerassistance, well I lasted about 7 moves I think...

I really would like it if there were more chances to play against equal hardware, like in this game. Most Rybka 2.3.2a books will not work so well with Rybka 3, people that do not want to start all over with making new books probably are better of with getting Jeroen Noomen's book. But for a while there is the chance to get a rather high rating with Rybka 3 even without the best book, and the book wars will start all over again soon I think but with many different lines, as Majd Ansari also posted in Rybka forum.