Author: K. Burcham
Date: 19:09:40 12/07/00
in july, 1988, at the world open in philadelphia, pennsylvannia, this fidelity
program made chess history and became the first microcomputer to earn a master
rating of 2265. fidelity started selling the same program, model 6113. it is
called a designer mach lll master. fidelity started selling this same program in
a table top sensory board. anyway, i bought one of these back then. i have taken
real good care of it. it is like new. fidelity sent out a certificate,
certifying that each one had the 2265 rating. i also kept this certificate in
perfect shape. i have had it in storage for several years. i thought it would be
fun to see how it would play against todays programs with new hardware. in case
you are interested, it uses a 68000 microprocessor running at 16 mhz, with 64k
rom, and 80k ram. i played it against my 1050 mhz 384 megs ram. shredder4 hash
set at 96megs , shredder4 evaluation tables set at 16 megs. shredder4 used
default settings. game time for both set at 30 minutes. fidelity set at
strongest settings. opening---ruy lopez/marshall counterattack. of couse s4 won.
but it took 58 moves. didnt think it would last that many moves. do i understand
this right, the fidelity has no hash tables, so does this mean it does not think
on the opponents time. so is the ram cleared after every move. it was averaging
about 6 ply on this 30 minute time control. it held shredder4 off for about 20
minutes of a 30 minute game. so maybe that wasnt too bad for such an weak old
timer.
thanks
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