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Subject: Re: Craft for the mac/the new version/to Richard Fowell

Author: John Scalo

Date: 15:06:08 01/12/98

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On January 12, 1998 at 00:51:19, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
wrote:

>On January 11, 1998 at 15:50:43, William Dozier wrote:
>
>>A thought i want to put forth,is that every time a chess
>>program is written for the Mac, it seems to be second class chess
>>engines. And first class for the Pc chess engines.
>
>?! HIARCS is the top-rated program on the SSDF (though, in fairness, it
>and Rebel are too close to call). And HIARCS Mac runs just fine. The
>CM4000 engine is second tier, granted (though pretty darn strong), and
>Virtual Chess is supposedly coming to the Mac ... while it is hard to
>place it accurately, it has done pretty darn well in the last two World
>MicroComputer Chess Championships.
>

Incidentally, the top rated blitz and standard player on FICS is "PPC" -
a Mac 9500 with a G3 processor card running CM 4000 or Hiarcs 6.

-j



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