Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 05:46:35 11/04/00
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On November 04, 2000 at 06:16:05, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I don't remember which version of Genius I used. It might have been G3, 4 or 5, but in my opinion all three are variations on the same theme, I mean with little differences among them and quite insignificant. Enrique
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