Author: Chris Taylor
Date: 15:39:27 12/26/99
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On December 26, 1999 at 18:18:44, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >When Sargon V for PC appeared, it was too late to become a darling. A first >version for Mac had been a complete failure and in the meantime the mess was >fixed and the PC version was in the shells, programs like Mchess, Rex and Zarkov > were those whom asked and received the attention. As I.M. Larry Kaufman said in >his review - Computer Chess Reports 1991-1992, Vol 2, N°3- “Sargon might have >been worth recommending if it had come out three years ago...” , although at >the same time he recognized that in his test with his problem set Sargon, >running in a 486-33, got 2326 USCF. >All this maybe seems old history, a chapter for nostalgics, but you well can get >a surprise if you put Sargon V to run in a decent current Pentium computer. >Suddenly you realize how good the last programs by Kathe and Dan Spracklen were >and how far from obsolescence the best of beginnings of 90’s programs in >general were and are if run with modern stuff. And then you have a material >demonstration of how much the progress has been based in better equipment and >not so much in software after all. Not that progress was not made in source >codes, not that new techniques did not appear, but -and this is a very great >BUT- sometimes is truly difficult to see the difference between a good current >commercial program and Sargon. If you still have it, test it and see how he >handles the endings. Etc. Maybe one of the many pals here that likes to pit >programs each against other could pit this aparent piece of museum agains, say, >Rebel or Genius. > >Fernando If I can get a copy now?? I will play a match, against, any program you name?? Auto232! Win95, or Dos?? I have the dos auto232. Say, its your call?? Chris Taylor Notts England
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