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Subject: Re: Back in time

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 11:47:26 08/30/01

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On August 30, 2001 at 08:50:52, Mark Young wrote:

>It has been suggested here that programs have made little progress in the last
>10 years other then hardware speed. Here is the list of top programs 6 years
>ago. Does anyone really think a program of 4, 6 or 10 years ago running on
>modern but equal hardware would have a chance of beating a Junior 7, Deep Fritz,
>Chess Tiger in a match. I think someone is pulling our legs.
>
>If the suggestion that programs have not progressed much is correct, then we
>have been suckered by all programmers who offer us so called better and stronger
>version of their programs.
>
>
>
>THE SSDF RATING LIST 1995-11-26
>46104 games played by  146 computers
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                                           Rating   +     -  Games   Won
>                                           Oppo
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                           ------  ---   --- -----   ---
>                                           ----
>   1 MChess Pro 5.0 Pentium 90 MHz           2458   45   -42   284   67%
>   2332
>   2 Genius 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz               2436   33   -31   498   66%
>   2318


MCHess Pro 5 was a beauty in blitz



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