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Subject: Re: Odds game Chessmaster 9000 vs. Mephisto Vancouver

Author: Johan de Koning

Date: 18:06:25 02/29/04

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On February 28, 2004 at 18:36:47, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>I decided to have some fun and set up an odds game between CM9K on P4 3.06 GHz
>and my old friend, Mephisto Vancouver (Motorola 68020), world champion program
>from 1991. T/C game in 60 min. Have a look:
>
>Chessmaster 9000 is White and plays without Nb1:
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Qe7 4. Nf3 Qxe4+ 5. Be2 Nc6 6. O-O Bc5 7. c3 O-O 8.
>d4 Bd6 9. Bg5 Be7 10. Re1 Qd5 11. c4 Qa5 12. d5 Nd8 13. Bd3 Bc5 14. Bxf6 gxf6
>15. Nd4 Ne6 16. Qh5 Ng5
>
>[D]r1b2rk1/pppp1p1p/5p2/q1bP2nQ/2PN4/3B4/PP3PPP/R3R1K1 w - - 0 17
>
>17. Re5! Re8 18. Rxe8+ 1-0
>
>Man, it's getting rough these days...

The cruelty of processing power!

I recall such a fun experiment The King (ChessMachine 32 MHz) versus Sphinx
Dominator (6502 2(4?) MHz). It must have been 1992. Out of all 14 possible
handicaps, the Dominator only scored 1 draw.
Man, it was rough those days ... :-)

... Johan



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