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Chessfun Rating Lists The Chessfun site is the work of Sarah Bird, 27 years young, from Barrie, Ontario. Sarah first became interested in computer chess when she was given a copy of Fritz 5, the very first computer program that she owned. Since then she has bought or been given gifts of all the top programs. Sarah became so interested in computer chess that she gave up playing and spent her time testing computer programs instead. Her other favorite things are "my dog, my snowmobile and VACATIONS!!"

Here are the current Chessfun rating lists (December 7, 2001). The lightening chess list was calculated from the results of over 1000 games by each of the programs. Both lists are based on a total of almost 20,000 games played on Sarah's computers.

Note that Fritz 7 is the first engine that was delivered with the program. Fritz 7a is the engine that is currently on the CD and which is automatically installed when you upgrade any version of the program. The way to upgrade is by logging into the Playchess server. If your Fritz 7 is up-to-date nothing will happen; if it is not, the server will offer to upgrade and will do so in a few minutes. You have to do nothing but click Okay once or twice. Fritz 7 (NoMMX) is the engine that is automatically used on older computers that were built in pre-MMX days.

Long games

5693 games, top 36 programs – minimum 70 games to qualify
All games minimum of 30 mins game – majority 5000+ are 60 mins or more

The full list and all statistics can be found here...

Lightning Chess

14040 games 27 programs – All games 1min + 1sec, Deep Fritz gui, Ponder=Off
All 3, 4 and 5 person tablebases – Thunderbird 1200 Mhz, 48 mb hashtables

The full list and all statistics can be found here...

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