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Subject: Re: What is the best Chess Genius program? Genius 5? or Genius 6.5 ???

Author: Tina Long

Date: 23:31:07 05/21/02

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On May 22, 2002 at 01:46:27, Tanya Deborah wrote:

>
>
>I have Genius 5 (For Dos) and also the version for Windows,and i think that
>these programs still, are very good enough.
>
>Somebody know if is true that Genius 5 is the best of the chess genius versions
>of Richard Lang?
>
>I think that Genius 5 is a bit stronger than Genius 3, but still i do not have
>enough results to confirm that. In my games, Genius 5 is a bit better that
>Genius 5, but how about Genius 6.5 ????

Popular opinion is that Genius3 was excellent and that little progress was made
after that.  Some will even say that 3 was best.

My guess is that there is little to choose between them.

Here's a few snips from SSDF 12/01
17 Fritz 5.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2552   25   -25   804   58%  2497
32 Genius 6.5  128MB  K6-2 450 MHz         2475   29   -29   565   48%  2488
36 Fritz 5.0 PB29%  67MB P200 MMX          2460   23   -22  1005   66%  2343
49 Genius 5.0 DOS  46MB P200 MMX           2391   20   -20  1197   49%  2395
58 Genius 5.0 DOS Pentium 90 MHz           2329   18   -18  1558   47%  2348
61 Genius 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz               2308   26   -25   785   61%  2228
64 Genius 4.0 DOS Pentium 90 MHz           2303   23   -23   944   60%  2234

Observations:
Fritz is better than Genius by about 70pts (in SSDF Games)
Genius 5 picked up 62 points going from P90 to P200
Genius 6.5 (K6-450) is 84 points above Genius 5 (P200)

>
>I remember that it has the same strenght or maybe it was a bit stronger than
>Fritz 5.32. It really was a very good program. Any information about the strengh
>of Genius 6.5?
>
>And.., Somebody can tell me, why Richard Lang abandoned the computer chess
>world???

He is still programming CC for the Palm.

I suspect that many of the programmers leave CC due to:
Personal satisfaction declines as the ratio of Improvement:Effort gets smaller &
smaller;
7 year itch - how long can you pursue the one intangable hobby;

Just my opinions,
Tina Long

>
>Thanks in advance!.
>
>Tanya Deborah



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