Author: Robert Smith
Date: 03:28:09 03/27/00
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On March 27, 2000 at 00:25:32, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 I'll say it has bugs. Once it checked me, declared checkmate and wouldn't let me move my king out of check. I don't think the stupid thing is over 1600 strength, and I don't think getting a faster processor would help.
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