Author: John Lowe
Date: 14:39:51 12/22/02
It was in the early '80's Sargon was not there. Richard Lang was but I don't think he won that year. I don't remember the winner (shame on me!) but I was told that the processor had a "move a knight" instruction! There was a program called "White knight". The author contrasted the "pseudo-move generation evaluation" character of Sargon with his "actual move generation / evaluation" routine (sorry - privately!) My program was unashamedly Sargon based on a TRS80 with an accelerated (8Mhz) Z80a, an opening book, a good deal of code optimization (more memory) and a "think on your opponent's time" feature. I'm reminded of the tournament tonight by the "Marshall attack" in another posting. My program (was it Caesar or Chestr?) had this in it's repertoir, stuck to it's guns and played it against a 1).......N-c6 opening (I had a transposition feature). I can remember eating my fingernails because, in one of the games, the king stayed at home for far too long waiting fot the trigger of a move-number instead of a "total material score" before it did a "king charge to the centre of the board". I was helped by Bill, my late Brother - a former Wiltshire County champion and first met a "lost" friend - Gordon Yates of Chingford/Edmondton. Hi Richard, Hi Gordon.....? My program was fourth overall and second best amateur. The best amateur won. I owe Gordon at least a Sinclair QL......and the Spracklens for their assembly language tuition. Is there anyone out there who can fill in some details and re-unite some old acquaintaces? John
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