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

Author: pavel

Date: 00:26:08 05/22/02

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On May 22, 2002 at 03:15:49, Tina Long wrote:

>On May 22, 2002 at 03:03:54, pavel wrote:
>
>>On May 22, 2002 at 02:31:07, Tina Long wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
>>Here is what Richard Lang had to say about this issue
>>(http://www.digichess.gr/articles/interview_lang.html)
>>there are some spelling mistakes in the interview :( all the "ct" has been
>>converted to "RL" funny though...
>>
>>
>>pavs
>
>
>Excellent, well done, thanks Pavel.
>I read as "Wonderful goals achieved, little else to be gained."
>
>
>tins     ;>}


Thanks :)

What I liked about what (and the way) he said is that he treated it more like a
"fun hobby", than anything else.

cheers,
pavs



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