Author: John Coffey
Date: 13:11:35 09/18/98
In 1984 I purchased a Novag Super Constellation. Mine quit working a few years ago. What impressed me the most about this program was the strength for its time considering that it was only running on a 4 mhz 6502. Granted it was no master, but the USCF gave it a rating of 2018. Those ratings given to computers were pretty controversial, and may still be controversial today on newer machines. My understanding is that it only evaluated positional ideas at the base of the search tree. Although that is rather limited, it gave the machine a balance of positional and tactical strength (for its time) that still probably could beat most tournament players. It seemed especially strong at speed chess. I wonder if anyone has one of these that still work? I would be curious if it still could hold its rating, and if gets totally crushed by better programs running on machines that are hundreds of times faster. John Coffey
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