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Subject: Re: Amusing errors to Sargon 4

Author: Mike S.

Date: 15:41:42 08/04/02

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On August 04, 2002 at 18:12:25, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>I preferred Sargon 3 on the Amiga. :) And it never played an illegal move, as
>far as I remember. I also Sargon 2 on an old Commodore machine.

Sargon III / Amiga probably is the most "classic" Sargon version. I liked it
too. I think it's the only reason why I still have my old Amiga 500 available
ready to run (? at least I think it's there; currently I see only a big pile of
dust :o))

An example game of Sargon III Amiga (40/2h):

http://www.computerschach.de/einleit/kapitel4.htm (in german language)

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1991.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sargon III (Amiga)"]
[Black "Turbo 16K"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C36"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Nf6 5. Bb5+ c6 6. dxc6 Nxc6 7. d4 Bd6 8.
O-O O-O 9. Nbd2 Bg4 10. Nc4 Bc7 11. Bxc6 bxc6 12. Qd3 {end of books} 12... Nd5
13. Nfe5 Nb4 14. Qd2 Be6 15. Rf2 Nxa2 16. Nxc6 Qe8 17. d5 Nxc1 18. Rxc1 Qd7 19.
Rd1 Bg4 $2 $18 20. N4e5 Bxe5 (20... Qc8 $4 21. Ne7+ Kh8 22. Nxc8) 21. Nxe5 Qc8
22. Nxg4 Qxg4 23. Rxf4 Qh5 24. Rd4 Rab8 25. c4 Rfe8 26. d6 Re2 $18 27. d7 Rd8
28. Re1 Rxe1+ $2 29. Qxe1 Qc5 30. Qe8+ Qf8 31. Re4 $1 Rxd7 32. Qxd7 Qc5+ 33.
Qd4 Qxd4+ 34. Rxd4 Kf8 35. c5 1-0

This version was less colorful, but IMO more smooth running in the Amiga OS than
the latest DOS version, Sargon V, which had a very low screen resolution
compared to todays pc standards.

For Sargon V, *expanded* memory should be configured. It can use up to 2 MB hash
memory then, IIRC. But expanded memory will most probably only be possible with
earlier DOS until Win98. It requires EMM386.EXE.

A recent result of Sargon V, running at 20 secs per move on a P2/333 (the
opponents at 40/2h). It was a shuffle chess tournament, scheveningen pairing
system:

                         -----------------  Novag Sapphire        4.0/6
                         |  --------------  Mephisto risc 1 MB    3.5/6
                         |  |  -----------  Mephisto Lyon 16Bit   3.0/6
                         |  |  |  --------  CXG Super Enterprise  0.0/6
                         |  |  |  |  -----  SciSys Turbo 16K      0.0/6
                         |  |  |  |  |  --  CXG Sphinx Dominator  0.0/6
                         |  |  |  |  |  |
 1 Socrates 3.0          1  1  1  1  1  1  6.0/6
 2 Sargon V              0  0  1  1  1  1  4.0/6
 3 Kallisto 97 Aegon     0  1  0  1  1  1  4.0/6
 4 Chessmaster 3000      1  0  0  1  1  1  4.0/6
 5 Kasparov's Gambit     0  0  1  1  1  1  4.0/6
 6 LChess 3.0            0  ½  0  1  1  1  3.5/6

http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/oldies2/oldies2a.htm  (german)

(incl. games downloads from the results page)

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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