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Subject: Re: Genius2 is clearly a legal free program

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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