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Subject: Re: Amusing errors to Sargon 4

Author: Art Basham

Date: 09:56:36 08/04/02

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Greetings...!

I also have Sargon4 ...and always had fun playing against it...

At least it never played any "illegal moves" for me...:-)


art

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On August 03, 2002 at 19:23:53, Jonathan Lee wrote:

>White: Jonathan
>Black: Sargon 4
>1 E2-E4    E7-E5
>2 G1-F3    F7-F5
>3 F1-C4    F5xE4
>4 C4-F7ch  E8xF7
>5 F3-E5ch  F7-F6
>6 O-O      F6xe5
>7 D2-D4ch  (D7-D3 illegal move)
>
>Apparently, Sargon 4 does not understand check and en passant at the same time
>with black pieces.
>I tried this vice-versa (meaning I am black & the comp. is white), but the moves
>were legal.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Here is something I didn't expect.
>White: Jonathan
>Black: Sargon 4
>1 G1-F3   G8-F6
>2 F3-G1   F6-G8 (the score is zero with this move; all other moves give a
>negative score)
>
>Any move except retreating the knight to its original square is acceptable.
>The game is a draw by 3 move repitition.  How ridiculous.
>When Sargon 4 is white, this doesn't happen.
>
>I don't recommend Sargon 4, just like Excalibur hand held buttons & Fidelity
>Challenger 7.
>Jonathan



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