Author: blass uri
Date: 22:41:15 07/29/00
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On July 29, 2000 at 23:51:11, ujecrh wrote: >On July 29, 2000 at 23:21:08, stuart taylor wrote: > >>According to chessbits new rating list, genius 3 rates at 2589! >>I remember that genius 4 was a bit slower and possibly rated at slightly less >>because it was the first windows version. But really!!!? couldn't genius >>6.5 have caught up with genius 3 yet? Even if genius 6.5 IS using windows, after >>3-4 further upgrades, is windows still all that debilitating? >> >>Also, by the way, It looks like Fritz 6a shares top place on that rating list >>with Deep Junior with 2698. Whilst DJ has error margin of -35 (fritz6a has minus >>much more) =2663, genius 3 has error margin of +80=2669. So it is still even >>possible that genius 3 is still the top program available today. >> >> Why has it been ignored all these years? only because of windows, and human >>tendency at fooling oneself? >> >>Progress has at any rate been very very slow! If I would have stayed with my old >>genius 3, and not bought newer software since then, I would not have been >>missing very much (in playing strength)! >>S.Taylor > > >The switch to Windows is probably not the main reason why genius4 appeared a bit >weaker, in fact I remember that Richard Lang's programs were criticized because >they were too passive so the author changed that in version 4 to have a more >active game. The change was probably good against humans but not against other >programs, at least that's what was said when Genius 4 was released. Sorry but Genius3 was the one of the best programs against humans. Genius3(p90) won kasparov 1.5:.5 in game/25(kasparov did not know that he plays against a new version and thought that he was playing against Genius2) In another match later kasparov won Genius3(p120) 1.5:.5 Uri
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