Saturday, September 22, 2012

Critter 1.6


      A candidate to be the best analysis program is the latest version (version 1.6) of Critter created by Richard Vida.  It is free and very powerful; some think it may be best for endgame analysis. It’s certainly no scientific test and proves nothing, but I ran a 2-game 5-minutes match against Houdini 1.5 and Critter won both games so it seems it’s certainly worth further investigating its possibilities!  Download
      One test I think might be helpful in considering the strength of engines is how they perform in Fischer Random Chess because they are in no way influenced by book openings and Critter 1.6 does quite well. The results at Computerchess for the top 5 engines in FRC are: 1-Critter 2-Houdini 2.0 3-Stockfish 4-Rybka 4 5-Naum
      BTW, does anybody know what happened to Naum?!  The website simply shows a tombstone with the inscription “Game Over.”
      Check out the results of testing at Computerchess.


2 comments:

  1. my friend?? ai you are a joke right? You put CRITTER 1.6 64-BIT VS 32-BIT 1.5 HOUDINI?? (W32) BUT OF COURSE THAT CRITTER 64-BIT WILL WIN! WHY THE ENGINES TO 64-BIT IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN AS OF 32 SHOULD HAVE PLACED VC ... The CRITTER 1.6 64-BIT HOUDINI XO 1.5 64-BIT TOO! YES I WOULD JUST THE DISPUTE TO ... BECAUSE OF 32-BIT CRITTER 1.6 JA WON THE HOUDINI 1.5 W32 32-BIT! I AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT ASPECT CRITTER IS A VERY POWERFUL ENGINE. I HAVE THE CRITTER 1.6 32-BIT AND HE GETS ALL OF ENGINES THAT I HAVE HERE! AND LOOK WHAT I HAVE HERE ... 30 ENGINES BEING THAT ARE TOP 8 OF THEM AMONG THE WORLD'S STRONGEST ENGINE!

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  2. If I am reading the original post correctly it clearly says the 2 games were neither scientific nor did they prove anything. Apparently it was just a sample game to show Critters play.

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