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Subject: Re: Genius2 is clearly a legal free program

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:27:26 04/10/01

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On April 10, 2001 at 11:08:44, Ralf Elvsén wrote:

>On April 09, 2001 at 15:20:08, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>>On April 09, 2001 at 13:53:02, John Smith wrote:
>>
>>>Under the about taskbar icon, credit is given to Richard Lang.  I'm not sure
>>>where the gentleman in a previous post came up with the "cracked by..."
>>>information.
>>>
>>>Very strong prog.  Stronger than my Nimzo 732 or Hiarcs 732 in preliminary
>>>testing.  Primitive GUI coupled with tiny hash table, give it a retro look.
>>>
>>>But it is strong.
>>
>>Hi!
>>
>>You can use 32mb hashtables, not to bad. It can compete rather well in blitz but
>>in 2h/40 it is another story.
>>
>>Bertil
>
>In the first game I played against it it gave away a pawn for nothing
>in a dead drawn pawn endgame, so I won easily. "What a piece of junk"
>I thought. Then I lost five games in a row...
>
>Is it weak in endgames? Otherwise I thought it had an "elegant" style.
>Hard to put the finger on, but it was very fun to play.
>
>Ralf

At the time it was considered to be strong in endgames.

bruce




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