Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 12:40:30 05/31/01
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> >>If it is 100 points stronger it is still not strong enough, the LCD chess model >>takes about 1 hour of thinking time to play Qe7 in this position: >> >[D] rnbqkb1r/ppp2ppp/3p4/8/4n3/5N2/PPPPQPPP/RNB1KB1R b KQkq - 0 1 >> >>1200?? hard to say, it does play some decent moves. >> >>The new thing might as well have an Athlon in it. Does anyone know what kind of >>chip was in the old one? Excalibur should have money enough to buy a better program. Why choose such a lousy program? Of course the hardware is very slow, but nevertheless I think that e.g. Insomniac had made much better even on this slow hardware. And I think that many amateur programmers would be proud to sell their program to Excalibur. Excalibur could afford it. Of course this chess program shall be suitable also for amateurs, but that should also be possible on lower levels. You don't have to call them handicap levels. Nobody think it is fun to play on a handicap level because of the word handicap. You only have to make floating levels from beginner and up. Or is it so that the hardware is so slow that also the best amateur engines would be that bad? Perhaps also the Excalibur LCD program had been good on a modern PC? Anybody that can tell me? This is a mystery for me. Georg
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