Author: Hans Christian Lykke
Date: 22:55:47 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. We (SSDF) have it still in the list! 135 Novag Diablo 68000 16 MHz 1905 21 -21 1123 41% 1971 136 Fidelity Mach III 68000 16 MHz 1893 14 -14 2410 52% 1880 137 Complete Chess System 486/33 MHz 1884 47 -47 221 47% 1906 >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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