Author: Kerry McDermott
Date: 15:56:53 08/05/02
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On August 04, 2002 at 12:56:36, Art Basham wrote: >Greetings...! > >I also have Sargon4 ...and always had fun playing against it... > >At least it never played any "illegal moves" for me...:-) > > >art > >============== > >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 I have Sargon IV for the Macintosh. I run it on a Mac SE. I use it mostly as a benchmark for low Expert. I play a few games with it against a new program on my Windows machine so I can find a reasonable set of settings that put it at expert level as well. For me (USCF 1743) playing against any software package at full strength is just too much. I like to win a game every once in a while! Kerry
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