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H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Oct 19, 2008 07:56 AM UTC:
M. Winther:
| Whoever said that isn't aware that there are tweaked Zillions chess
| variants programs that play a fine game of chess. 

Well, as I have no Zillions, I cannot test that. What (computer) rating do
you think Zillions would have in (properly tweaked) normal Chess? Could it
beat Fairy-Max / micro-Max? I doubt that very much, and Fairy-max is only a
very mediocre engine, (what can you expect from a mere hundred lines of
code?), about 500 Elo weaker than a good engine, and about 1000 Elo below
the World top (=Rybka).

From the unspeakable World Championship, where Fairy-Max beat Zillions, I
got the impression that Zillions is tactically weak. It just doesn't
search deep enough.