Author: Don Dailey
Date: 08:51:54 06/05/98
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On June 05, 1998 at 06:11:54, Bert Seifriz wrote: >On June 04, 1998 at 18:29:13, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>I wish folks would use the titles they win, without embellishing them, >>and I wish they would state they year that they win them, unless they >>won them this year. >> >>The most recent example is the inside last page of the USCF magazine, >>"Chess Life". >> >>This is a Virtual Chess 64 ad that claims that the program was "1996 & >>1997 world microcomputer chess champion". >> > >When Kasparov's Gambit was released a few years ago Electronic Arts >printed on the box that it was world champion, although it had >not even taken part in any championship at all. >This sort of advertising is obviously allowed in some countries. >Bert/gambitsoft.com I personally did not like this. It was my program. It was based on a program that won the INTERNATIONAL computer chess championship, and even then I don't consider it the same program for a couple of reasons. Although it started from the same source code, it used 32 bit data structures. But the program was compiled (for commercial reasons) on a 16 bit compiler and that cut the performance in half. On top of that, testing I did later showed it playing different moves with different scores at the same depth. Something was changed, probably by accident, when the fancy interface was added. Our timing tests showed it running a little slower than half speed, I think it was a combination of interface stuff and 16 bit compilation. - Don
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