Author: Richard A. Fowell
Date: 21:05:58 06/08/02
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On June 06, 2002 at 23:58:22, martin fierz wrote: It's been years since I spoke with Ed Trice, but when I did, he had a web site that mentioned an article in Chess Life and Review about a match between his program and some master(?), and I found it in my collection (which goes back to about 1974). Here's what his web site had to say then: (of course, the slowest Mac was 8 MHz, and "master" would be "2000+ USCF": "Click on the graphic above to read an article about The Sniper and Hi Tech (which was the highest rated chess machine before Deep Thought, later known as Deep Blue, came onto the chess scene) at the 1989 Pennsylvania State Championship. The Sniper remained undefeated after this tournament, with a cumulative total of 5 wins and 3 draws. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: The Sniper II is currently not available for downloading. It is being rewritten to run on PowerPC Macintoshes. In 1989 & 1990, it achieved its Master rating on a Macinotsh SE, which was a 7 [SIC] MHz 68000 processor! It can most likely execute 100 times faster on modern machines." For a few years, he had mention of an updated version of Sniper on his web site, but it was never available to me. He does have a pretty nice checkers program called "World Championship Checkers", though. His web site is: http://www.InfiniteLoop.org/ (though I'm having no luck with that URL just now). -Richard A. Fowell. > >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
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