Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 21:25:32 03/26/00
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On March 26, 2000 at 18:44:49, John Coffey wrote: >Microsoft Entertainment Pack has a chess program called Zigurrat. I set it to 1 >second per move and beat it at speed chess on the Expert level of difficulty. >(I am rated 1978.) Anybody know the strength of this program? > >This would be a nice program except for the small chess board. > >John Coffey Ziggurat was written by a fellow named David Norris. Those "entertainment packs" contained a few things that Microsoft had to pay real money to get, but mostly they were done on the cheap with software contributed by employees, which was the case here. Ziggurat is extremely weak and has a lot of bugs. It is probably the weakest program you'll find from a company that is still in business and makes a profit, bar none. Which makes it an interesting program, in a way. My 6 year-old plays against it and he has a lot of fun. bruce
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