Author: ujecrh
Date: 09:11:18 04/11/01
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On April 11, 2001 at 00:53:18, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 10, 2001 at 13:27:26, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On April 10, 2001 at 11:08:44, Ralf Elvsén wrote: >> >>>On April 09, 2001 at 15:20:08, Bertil Eklund wrote: >>> >>>>On April 09, 2001 at 13:53:02, John Smith wrote: >>>> >>>>>Under the about taskbar icon, credit is given to Richard Lang. I'm not sure >>>>>where the gentleman in a previous post came up with the "cracked by..." >>>>>information. >>>>> >>>>>Very strong prog. Stronger than my Nimzo 732 or Hiarcs 732 in preliminary >>>>>testing. Primitive GUI coupled with tiny hash table, give it a retro look. >>>>> >>>>>But it is strong. >>>> >>>>Hi! >>>> >>>>You can use 32mb hashtables, not to bad. It can compete rather well in blitz but >>>>in 2h/40 it is another story. >>>> >>>>Bertil >>> >>>In the first game I played against it it gave away a pawn for nothing >>>in a dead drawn pawn endgame, so I won easily. "What a piece of junk" >>>I thought. Then I lost five games in a row... >>> >>>Is it weak in endgames? Otherwise I thought it had an "elegant" style. >>>Hard to put the finger on, but it was very fun to play. >>> >>>Ralf >> >>At the time it was considered to be strong in endgames. >> >>bruce > > > >Genius 2 and up are definitely extremely strong in the endgames. > >A nightmare for any chess programmer who wants to test his creature. > >However it will be difficult to show it if the DOS version cannot use more than >320Kb of memory as I have read somewhere. Or you have to limit the size of the >opponent's HT to the same value, just to be fair. > > > > Christophe I could check the user manual if someone is interested but I remember that there was a way to use up to 32Mb with the DOS version of Genius: starting in pure DOS, without any memory manager and using a command line parameter (/x I think). Ujecrh
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