Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:07:15 08/06/02
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On August 05, 2002 at 18:56:53, Kerry McDermott wrote: >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 Sargon's nice and functional GUI was the primary reason I bought my first Mac back in March 1988. (I had been 100% a DOS user up until then.)
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