Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:16:05 11/04/00
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On November 04, 2000 at 06:10:16, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On November 04, 2000 at 03:51:21, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On November 04, 2000 at 00:47:04, Andrew Dados wrote: >> >>>On November 04, 2000 at 00:00:04, Peter Skinner wrote: >>> >>>>>By your definition I would say that Richard Lang's programs between 1985 and >>>>>1992 are the all time greats. >>>>> >>>>>They are still an incredible challenge to many amateur programs. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Christophe >>>> >>>>I totally agree. We have benefacted from the experience of earlier acheivements, >>>>just as the rest of the world has. >>>> >>>>To say that today's programs are the best of all-time, is a slap in the face of >>>>the older generation of programs. Nothing has been proved. Today's standard are >>>>so much higher than they were back then. There is really no comparison. >>> >>>Most important thing is processor speed / memory sizes programs were >>>written/debugged and intended to run. For me all time greatest is definitely >>>Genius. Get a 486/33Mhz and try it against any of todays top programs. I put my >>>money on Genius... >>> >>>-Andrew- >> >>I suggest that you try 4 minutes/40 moves on fast hardware that is eqvivalent to >>120 minutes/40 moves on 486/33Mhz. >> >>I guess that Genius is going to lose against Gambittiger or Fritz6a. >> >>Uri > >I tried it 2 or 3 years ago on equal hardware and Genius lost to the top >programs of these times quite badly. I think that Genius was also one of the >secret machines tested by the SSDF and came out over 100 Elo points under the >top. > >Enrique Which Genius did you use? I suspect that Genius3 is better than other versions at blitz but I do not know. I bought Genius3 because it beated kasparov at 25 minutes per game. I did not buy later versions because they had no good results to convince me to buy them. Uri
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