Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 05:46:20 10/11/97
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On October 10, 1997 at 12:14:34, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote: >In Summer '84 - I feel like talking of "summer of '42" :-) - , when I >was student in Heidelberg and still writing articles for CSS (a german >computer chess magazine existing still today), I published a - as far as Yes Dirk, it was a great time those days. >Each program played against each with white and black. Results then: >1. Elite A/S 4.6 Mhz 5.5 points >2./3. Constellation 3.6. Mhz 5 > Mephisto Exclusive 5 >4. Playmatic S 3 >5. Superstar 1,5 Ahhh !!! My Mephisto III S !!! >*** Now I need your help: *** >Not being able to do all the testing on my own (besides my P133/32Mb >mostly in use I only can produce P90-games on two other machines with >16/24MB and therefore limited hastables), I will continously publish >test positions here, asking for your help. >I hope those of you who are interested will send me their test games >played with these positions. If you give me the starting position (better moves played before) I can use my autoplayer-pair for different games. After input of the position you can easily start the auto232 with command CTRL-0 and run from this point of the game a completely automatic game without operating errors. > >For a first test - and to see how many of you have fun in contributing >games, >I ask you for the sake of some "Heidelberg nostalgia" ;-) to play the >above Tarrasch variation with your programs and on your platforms >(please only use same hardware for both programs and name settings). >Preferred are tests on tournament level 40/120 on either P90 or MMX200 >hardware. >(This makes the results comparable to those ot the SSDF-database). Ok , will do so. Shouldn't we coordinate the participating programs, otherwise too many people test the same programs ?? I would like to to CSTal vs. rest-of-the-world from the above position. Also I have Mchess6, Rebel8, Hiarcs6 and Virtual-Win1 and not to forget Fritz5 and Nimzo3.5 and Wchess. > > >By the way: the same CSS-magazine contains an article about the >micro-championship in Glasgow with photos from people like Kathy >Spracklen and information from the London games of IM David Levy against >Cray Blitz with a nice photo of Bob Hyatt - more hair then :-) - and >Hans Berliner - only as much hair as needed ;-) !!! Ha - we have a picture of Bob ! Yeah !
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