Right now, the world's best crazyhouse (aka drop-chess aka chessgi, due to the resemblance to shogi) players almost all play most of their games on the Free Internet Chess Server. The best computer right now goes by the handle "sregorg", which is Sunsetter running on a 1.5GHz P4. It has occupied one of the top few positions on the ranking list for several months now, and it plays 3-5 minute games (by far the most popular) at or above the same level as the best players. I currently am #14 in the rankings, and given our relative ratings, sregorg has an expectation of about 80% wins against me. In practice, I have 20 wins and 86 losses. The results of the current top 5 humans vs sregorg are as follows: 0-1, 13-22, 101-256-11, 13-32, 28-72. A now-inactive former #1 player has an 11-11 record, though. So, the computers have improved.
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Right now, the world's best crazyhouse (aka drop-chess aka chessgi, due to the resemblance to shogi) players almost all play most of their games on the Free Internet Chess Server. The best computer right now goes by the handle "sregorg", which is Sunsetter running on a 1.5GHz P4. It has occupied one of the top few positions on the ranking list for several months now, and it plays 3-5 minute games (by far the most popular) at or above the same level as the best players. I currently am #14 in the rankings, and given our relative ratings, sregorg has an expectation of about 80% wins against me. In practice, I have 20 wins and 86 losses. The results of the current top 5 humans vs sregorg are as follows: 0-1, 13-22, 101-256-11, 13-32, 28-72. A now-inactive former #1 player has an 11-11 record, though. So, the computers have improved.