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Subject: Re: What is the USCF rating of 1985 versioin Fidelity Excellence 3 MHz?

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 10:52:29 08/27/02

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On August 27, 2002 at 13:24:22, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On August 27, 2002 at 12:29:23, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>>nonsense. over those years ( i tested all those chess computers)
>>>i have seen many units of those machines. any machine i got,
>>>i read out the eproms.
>
>>Really? How did you manage that?
>
>buy them. read them out. play games, tournaments. save the games on HDD.
>write articles about it. relate positions with different versions of
>par ex, excellence etc.
>
>very easy.
>when you see par ex making a stupid move, you take out excellence and
>try the same position with this machine. and than you can see if it plays
>better concerning this topic.
>
>
>>ROTFL! Which is nonsense? Dan Spraklen wrote the programme, and it was based on
>>the Excellence:))
>
>this is no guaranty that it plays better with the pawns.
>often programs make step backwards.
>
>i don't see any contradiction in that.
>
>i stay to my thesis that excellence had a better pawn play/handling
>than par ex.
>
>and that 2 versions of par ex exist, one with a tactical strenght
>playing ugly double/trippe pawns, no idea about passed pawns/pawn pushing
>and minority attack with pawns, and another one that plays like the excellence.
>
>that means: good pawn handling.
>
>maybe i still have the games that support my sayings. i can research for the
>games / positions, if you want.

Sure, go ahead, I am actually interested.

Terry



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