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Subject: Re: Let's Compare Genius 3 with Todays PC Programs

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 00:03:39 08/30/01

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On August 30, 2001 at 02:15:53, Derrick Daniels wrote:

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> Ok, forget about the hardware improments of the last 9 years, how much better
>is Deep Fritz or Tiger 14 then Genius 2, 3 ?? I have Heard Bob hyatt say that
>little improvement has been made. From a Chess Amatuer Point of view, seems to
>me much progress has been made, although genius was strong, it tended to make
>rediculous moves and was extremely materialistic, it couldn't sacrifice material
>for positional reasons like modern programs, or is my thinking corrupted by
>hyperbole? It does seem that today's programs do play much stronger and better
>chess then 1994, what do you think?

I looked at SSDF list and found one answer: Genius 5 is rated exactly as Mchess
8, which is 2477 on AMD 450. Genius 3 is 21 points weaker e.g. about 2456. This
is quite exactly 200 points under DeepFritz and Tiger!

Jouni



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