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How strong are the Winboard engines compared to the commercial ones? Which is the strongest program ?

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How strong are the Winboard engines compared to the commercial ones? Which is the strongest program ?

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For the free chess engines it is very difficult to gauge the strength relative to each other or to humans. It was tough enough in the past, when there were only a handful of them, but today with hundreds of such programs and with more coming in, the task is nearly impossible. A popular way to classify engines is to refer to Leo Dijksman’s tourneys and to classify engines as “Division 1” , “Division 2” , “Premier”, etc. But Leo can only run one or two tourneys per year and new engine releases happen more often. Quickly improving engines take a long time to progress through Leo’s divisions. Testing time can be shortened of course if testing is done on several machines or through a collective effort between several testers. This is the idea of CEGT, CCRL, and SSDF. CEGT in particular is able to quickly generates significant up-to-date rating lists for new versions of chess engines. Even if you can generate significant results fast enough to matter we are still not out of the woods. You st

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