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Subject: Re: Fidelity EAG / 2265 (30mins) vs Gambit Tiger ( 1 minute)

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:27:59 12/16/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 20:43:46, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On December 13, 2000 at 20:11:01, stuart taylor wrote:
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>>On December 13, 2000 at 12:53:11, Tom Glenn wrote:
>>
>>>Here's a fun game .   My old (10-12 yrs?)  Fidelity Elite Avant Garde , which
>>>used the Mach III engine  vs   Gambit Tiger  running on 1.0 GHz thunderbird chip
>>>EAG got 30 mins to make all moves ,  GT got 60 secs.......
>>>A lot of carnage in this opening line ,  settles into a fairly even ??  game
>>>by mid 30's ,  then GT crushes him in next 10-12 moves......   enjoy
>>>Sorry about the spacings......  still trying to figure all this out ....
>>
>>This result is obvious to me. In fact I'm surprised it took 57 moves.
>>I think that GT would win every single game in 1 min. even against that same
>>opponent taking tournament timing over his.
>>
>>But we know all that! The problem is that nothing is tearing the top programs of
>>the last 3-4 years to pieces in any way at all.
>> I don't even know if there has been any tangible improvement at all, during
>>last 3 years, besides the hardware.
>>S.Taylor
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>Of course there has been. I even wonder how you can ask this question...
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>    Christophe

By tangible improvement, I mean that in any game, you can see that the slightly
older program just disintegrates, and can never really get anything good going,
but that it gets overpowered, unless very lucky.

S.Taylor



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