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Subject: Re: elo of old chessprograms/computers

Author: John R. Menke, Sr.

Date: 15:13:21 06/26/99

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On June 26, 1999 at 11:39:36, Geert Roelof van der Ploeg wrote:

>Does somebody know the elo of the following computers:
>
>Sensory Chess challenger 9
>Tandy/Radio Shack 1650
>
>and of the following programs
>
>Cm2100
>Crafty 16.3
>Sargon V
>Cyrus
>Psion
>Mychess
>Chess Player 2175
>
>All on a Ibm compatable. If you know please state the following:
>
>The machine on which the program runs, the source of information and if the elo
>is USCF or European.
>
>Thanks in advance

I have some of them for my old Commodore 64, which is still alive and well in
the back room. I just loaded CM2000 and CM2100 to test something today!
Unfortunately the CM2100 interface for the C64 was horribly buggy, almost
unusable. The CM2000 version also had some bugs, but was mostly OK, and a pretty
good chess player. The Sargon software from the Spracklens was excellent, but
the interface was also a bit buggy on the C64.  elo strength was not very exact
back in those days, the mid-to-late 1980's, but we generally expected a good
program to play perhaps Class A (1800+) -- even on the Commodore 64 at the
blinding processor speed of 1 Mhz!  I imagine that some of them played at elo
2000+ on faster systems such as IBM.
--JRM




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