Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:40:24 01/02/98
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On January 02, 1998 at 13:28:55, Don Dailey wrote: >>I am not sure but wasn't SARGON-II limited to a maximum depth of 8 >>plies? >>Or was that SARGON-I? I don't remember precisely. But we will soon find >>out. > >That was definitely Sargon-II. That thing gave me hours of pleasure! >I would do anything to get it running on a TRS-80 emulator on a >pentium. I think Sargon-I used only a static exchange evaluator while >Sargon-II used a quies search. > Hin Don: Yeah, you are right, and what is more, an important chapter of the history of PC chess omputing was made by sargon I as much as there it was used for the very first time the exchange evaluator. I remember an interview with spracklñen of whete they said that it was that algoruthm the key of the strenght of sargon compared with the opposition. Fernando
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