Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:14:49 08/06/02
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On August 06, 2002 at 13:33:36, Julian Morley wrote:
>On August 06, 2002 at 09:34:41, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On August 05, 2002 at 18:29:47, Julian Morley wrote:
>>
>>>On August 05, 2002 at 18:00:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 05, 2002 at 17:50:38, Julian Morley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 05, 2002 at 17:23:19, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On August 05, 2002 at 16:41:02, Julian Morley wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Genius4 is a pretty strong program that includes a very good GUI and a decent
>>>>>>>book, all on one floppy disk. I believe it could still win a few games against
>>>>>>>the latest CDROM programs that come with very large books and multi megabyte
>>>>>>>GUI's. Is this the strongest program + book + GUI that fits on one floppy disk?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Jules
>>>>>>
>>>>>>and it must be windows too?
>>>>>
>>>>>Any OS. I suppose Genius3 DOS would give genius4 a good run for it's money.
>>>>
>>>>crafty + winboard fit on 1 disk.
>>>>
>>>>works on any os!
>>>
>>>By taking the Winboard.hlp file out I managed to make it fit with Crafty 18.15.
>>>I remember playing some games between Genius 6.5 and Crafty under the Chess
>>>Millenium System and Genius came out on top. I don't think Genius 6.5 is much
>>>stronger than Genius4. I might install the Chess Millenium System and play some
>>>games between Genius4 and Crafty 18.15 just for interest.
>>>
>>>Jules
>>
>>Keep in mind that Crafty has evolved considerably over the last couple of years.
>>There were some bugs in 18.12 as I recall, but the last versions are VERY
>>strong. For your idea of "the ultimate free chess package on a disk"
>
>I didn't specify that the package had to be free. AFAIK, Genius4 is not free,
>even though it may not be available anymore.
>
>In a different thread someone as metioned running Shredder under the Arena GUI.
>Both the Arena GUI and the Shredder engine will fit quite comfortably on a
>floppy disk. Maybe this is the strongest floppy disk package, or would the
>absence of a book for Shredder be too much of a handicap? I don't know.
>
>Jules
The only problem is that you would also need the Shredder CD when
installing/running the Shredder engine.
Albert
>
>, it should
>>do the trick.
>>
>> Albert
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