Author: Will Singleton
Date: 16:36:04 04/01/99
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On April 01, 1999 at 15:14:05, Ian Osgood wrote: > >An account I run is SapphireII. It is a high quality program, but runs at only >32 MHz. It is routinely crushed by everything running on P166 or better except >for a few rank amateur programs. (This is actually pretty good! Kittinger >wrote some mean assembly.) Search depth is everything in comp-comp games. >Faster processors prevail in the long run. > > Hello Ian, I appreciate SapphireII being on fics. I use it as a sounding board to test changes. And I'm amazed at how well it plays, even when in time trouble. Seems very good positionally, and occasionally shows some tactics too. Amateur is one of those "rank amateur" programs, but you've helped me improve quite a bit. I think I'm finally getting the upper hand, lately (2185 now). How did you do the interface? I used to do some assembly i/o, using uarts hooked to the 6502. Will
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