Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 16:33:04 08/04/02
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On August 04, 2002 at 18:41:42, Mike S. wrote:
>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
If I remember it right the Sphinx was written by IM David Levy. I read about
Levy's try and the poor performance of his creations.
Alessandro
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