Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 09:54:05 06/29/03
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On June 29, 2003 at 12:27:50, Jason Waugh wrote: >Hello All, > >I've recently found and dusted off an old travel dedicated unit that my parents >bought for me many many years ago. > >It's by CXG and is called Star Chess... model# CXG 209. It is tiny (roughly 8" >by 5") with a protective plastic lid, and it comes with built in storage for the >little tiny pieces (which are pegs and fit into holes in the board). > >Anybody have any info on this - specifically a rough idea of it's strength? >I've googled around but can't find anything. > > >Thanks, > Jason W. Advanced Star Chess from CXG ? As far as i remember this machine was good in the Colditz-Test and hot an ELO by solving this test-suite. maybe 1750-1800 depending on the mhz. It was possible to overclock this machine. 1750 if you have the default mhz and maybe 1800 if it is overclocked. There should be a rating in the SSDF of those times too. i found a web site (http://home.hetnet.nl/~timman/csvnp5.html)that says: 158. CXG Advanced Star Chess 2 MHz 1565 uff 1565 is indeed low. programmer was von Kaare Danielsen. The program is the same as in Super-Enterprise. here a chess position you can use as a benchmark because it was done with many other machines too: 2q4r/1kp4p/1pbp2p1/p7/P1Q5/1P3NP1/2P3BP/2K5 w - - 0 1 1.qxc6+ ! Conchess Amsterdam (6 Mhz) 1:59 Mephisto MM2 2:52 Advanced Star Chess (Desp.) 2:55 Advanced Star Chess (Norm.) 4:15 Desp means playing style desperate, the other is normal. Mach III (68000 12 mhz) 5:25 Avantgarde 7:51 Excel 68000 8:05 Expert 8:39 Travel Master 11:15 Elite Glasgow 11:37 Super Constellation 12:06 Elite Budapest 13:07 as you can see the 2'55" is not that bad, isn't it ?! Here a few PC results, the PC was an old 386SX-20 Mhz :-))) Now 0.1 00:25 Sargon IV 02:00 Mchess 1.51 07:35 Rexchess 2.3 (brute-force) 03:36 Chessmaster 3000 08:40 Fritz (Version 1) 18:14 And the Lang programs ?? How do THEY solve the position ? Roma II not in 12h Vancouver 68020 not in 40:00 And on a 400 mhz AMD K6-3 machine (64 MB Hash): Genius 6.5 00:22 Genius 4 00:30 Genius 3 00:34 ATARI PsionST not in 1h I hope this helps you a little.
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