Author: Jari Huikari
Date: 09:33:36 12/09/97
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On December 06, 1997 at 12:58:29, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Else: the programs and unit should be really old. No sense to use, let >us say, a Travel Champion unit. I propose 1989 year as a limit. Inside >that limits I have Par Excellence, Chessmaster 2000, Psion, Colossus X, >Cyrus, Power Chess ( an old one, not the actual based in Wchess by >Kittinger), Mychess, Sargon V and I don't remeber more, I should take as >look at my old floppy disk boxes. >Some new ideas and sugestions? >Fernando Maybe this isn't right place but... I have myself only an old 386/25Mhz machine. My Nero is not an old program. But it is "Yesterdays technicue of today!" I think that level 4 with a pentium processor could make about one move per hour... I _don't_ propose that you use it in your tournament, but it would be nice to have _some_ results. How it does against some old programs. (Even with pentium I think it's probably worse than any old program... :-) So if someone has nothing better to do... Nero's calculations are almost pure brute force based. Only level 3 has some selectivity: It doesn't search what would be opponent's second reply, if the situation looks bad enough after three plies. It doesn't really look for mates in it's ply search. King is just one piece among the others, much more valuable thought. Latest version (with a small opening book) can be found from: http://www.math.jyu.fi/~huikari/neropack.exe Versions without book from Gambit-soft. Jari
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