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Subject: Re: 1 Hour CCR (Genius 2 Possibly the Strongest?)

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 09:50:30 05/16/01

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On May 13, 2001 at 22:39:43, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>  I noticed Genius 5 scored 2632 on an Athlon 1330.  I tested Genius 2 on an AMD
>K6/500 and got a score of 2640. (80 x 8 + 2000 = 2640)
>

In this test it might the strongest of the Genius' it seems ;-) .

In fact Genius2 was one of the programs I used to love very much - it played
like some Petrosian - strong but _extremly_ passive . I was always under the
impression to be able to hold or win only to find out that I somehow missed
something _again_ ... :-); the endgame was superb - I think it was the first
program I ever pitted against another chessprogram btw - it had to play against
Mephisto 2 ( which it punished badly ) and against Mephisto MM V ( interesting
challenge ; I think Genius 2 was on a 286 then ( my first ever computer ) .

I skipped Genius 3 and got Genius 4 next ( probably quite similar to 3 from what
I have heard ) .

In the meantime I had upgraded my computer to a 486 and it seemed Genius had
changed its style completely :-) - it seemed to be much more agressive than
Genius 2 ( which might very well be the effect of the 486 , too , I know ;-) ).

It still was strong - but I never had the same respect for it than I had had for
the Genius 2 - I reinstalled Genius then and never was quite sure which of them
was stronger - at least they seemed to be quite different beasts to me .

Thanks again for posting your results, Dana .

pete





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