Author: walter irvin
Date: 20:14:28 12/07/00
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On December 07, 2000 at 22:09:40, K. Burcham wrote: >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 i had the mach IV for years until i sold it last year.its rating was 2325 and ran on a 68020 at 20 mhz 512k hash .for years the mack IV was the standard which i measured all my pc programs by .by last year just about all my pc programs could beat it on my 300 mhz cyrix 96 meg .but that computer sure did have some bite to it .i sold it when my radio shack 2250 was beating it.but i must admit that of all the people who i seen play it, i was the only person to win vs it .i only won about 40 games out of maybe 1000 a few draws the rest loses .
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