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

Author: Carsten Kossendey

Date: 15:26:28 01/12/98

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On January 12, 1998 at 18:06:08, John Scalo wrote:

>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

Yet more incidentally, this is exactly the machine which we benchmarked
Crafty on ;)



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