Author: Albert Silver
Date: 09:38:26 02/16/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 04:02:16, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>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
At 1 second a move I am not surprised. The program is supposed to be rated at
2000 or so at 40 moves in 2h. The program was already quite selective, and
didn't see all that far anyhow, so I don't know whether it will be seeing more
than a ply or 2.
Albert Silver
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