Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:05:28 06/07/98
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On June 07, 1998 at 18:04:01, William Dozier wrote: >Good day everyone: I have had the DIAMOND NOVAG for about two years and >so far i have not been sorry that i brought it. It is worth every dollar >that i spent for it and some and it is fast. It has beaten SARGON V FOR >the Mac, it has beaten crafty on numerious times. It has beaten MacChess >PPc Version 3, 4. it has beaten RadioShack 2150. It has not beaten >Hiarcs 60. It is interesting to note that the program for the DIAMOND >NOVAG by the same people who wrote the program for Hiarcs. So any >program that cannot beat it, its a weak program, that is why i called it >a refeerence chess standalone, where as i guage other strong chess >programs. This is quite different from my results. I received one of these as the "Novag award" last year, and played a couple of dozen games in my office vs Crafty. At fast time controls it was no contest... and at longer time controls I quit at 5-1. However, to be fair, my pentium pro that I used at the time was way faster than the "risc technology" processor they used... but strong it wasn't... at least the one I have. It gets out- searched *badly* by PC programs. I played a few games with Genius against it as well and Genius also thrashed it quite handily. But note that it is a 20mhz chip... not 200mhz... When you consider that, it is not bad. But it isn't going to play with any program I know of when you use current hardware...
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