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Subject: Re: does anybody remember "the sniper"?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:48:25 06/07/02

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On June 06, 2002 at 23:58:22, martin fierz wrote:

>aloha!
>
>i just recently chatted to a guy called ed trice, who wrote a chess program
>called "the sniper" a long time ago. he claimed that his program had been 2200
>on a 7MHz macintosh.
>i was wondering if that wasn't a bit much, given that a mephisto genius 33MHz on
>a 68030 is rated 2195 on the ssdf list. so... does anyone remember this program
>and it's author? is this claim possibly true? or could he have been referring to
>USCF ratings which are a bit higher?
>
>cheers
>  martin


The slowest Mac ever was 8 MHz (all the early 68000 models).

I don't remember The Sniper, and I used to have every Mac program that was
available in the late '80s.



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