Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:37:21 05/06/02
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On May 06, 2002 at 16:53:19, William H Rogers wrote: >I have the original book. It was written in assembly, but with very few macros. >It may also be known that many different excerpts from the book were published >in a few computer magazines that were in circulation at that time. >The orignial Sargon I was only rated about 1150 points on a 2 mhz Z80 machine, >ie. Radio Shack Model I or III. Sargon II on the other hand had a much faster >search routine, it could search at least one ply deeper and was rated about 1450 >points on the same machine. I'm pretty sure that Sargon II was much stronger than that. In 1980 I had access to a TRS-80 model I and Sargon II and I was very impressed by the strength of the program. I'm sure it was at least 1650 elo, if not 1700. >I have both programs, and I have Sargon III which >was written for the PC's along wiht Sargon 4 and 5. >They used a static exchange evaluator for capturing pieces, that is the pieces >were loaded on a stack form the smallest to the largest and then were swaped >until one side of the other gained or lost points. >Bill >P.S. >The code was in Z80 assemble, but was readily convertable to 8080 coding. You mean that Sargon I was using a SEE? Because as far as I know Sargon II and the next version were using a real QSearch instea
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