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Subject: Re: What ever Happened to Kaissia and Ostrich?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:04:10 06/28/01

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On June 28, 2001 at 23:09:23, Joshua Lee wrote:

>I am wondering how well Chaos would do on let's say a dual 1.2Ghz Athlon or
>1.7P4 Xeon? I think with Positional play like that it would be rather strong
>back then it had to be different as the hardware wasn't that fast. That
>tournament was WCCC 1974 and the newborn book i have here says univac 1110 this
>may be a typo it could be the 1108. I don't think many programs are finding this
>move with so few nodes 17,508 ..... 9:47 The position is also part of the VA
>test suite.


Hard to say.  Early versions of Chaos were _very_ selective.  Later versions
were more chess 4.x like.  It wasn't a parallel program at all, so it wouldn't
use the dual cpus.  It was written in Fortran (as was most programs back then
as that was _the_ language for 'supercomputers' of the era).

Fred Schwartz and I used to talk all the time when he was at Michigan.  They
had a team of 4 (at least) and sometimes more.  Good program.  pretty good
eval (not in endgames however).  But it did pretty well in middlegames.



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