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Subject: Genius for Palm--weak??

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 01:02:16 02/16/00


I had an idea tonight: I would watch Genius (on my Palm III) crush TSCP (on my
Celeron/400).

Well, that idea backfired.

I played two games between the programs. Genius was set to 1 sec/move for both
games. TSCP was set to 5 sec/move for the first game and it absolutely crushed
Genius. I figured the hardware advantage was way too big, so I set TSCP to 4 ply
and played another game. TSCP crushed Genius again.

Then a friend of mine came to visit. He's rated ~1500 blitz on some chess
servers. I asked him to play Genius. I wouldn't say he crushed Genius, but he
did win after 30 or 40 moves. And he was playing faster than Genius, too.

I watched all 3 games, and Genius was making some very weird moves. It seemed to
cripple its own pawn structure on purpose, and it kept moving its pieces to the
corners.

Comments???

-Tom



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