Author: blass uri
Date: 01:04:08 11/30/98
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On November 30, 1998 at 03:23:26, odell hall wrote: >Hi CCC > > I am writing this post because I percieve that there is blatant lack of respect >for older chess programs on the Chess computer message boards. I believe this >perception is completely unjustified! In fact when the whole question is >carefully examined I think one would find that the strength difference between >old and new programs are greatly exaggerated! What I am defining as old are the >programs that came out in say 93 and 94 which include Rebel6 Chessmaster 4000, >Genius3 Mchess4. Perhaps the "real" reason why ssdf does not test these older >programs on Pent mmx200 machines because it would show that there has actually >been very little improvement in chess software, thus very little reason to >upgrade to the newer programs. It would also show that most of us are simply >victims of Sales hype! you can find the expected rating of these old programs on pentium200MMX add 70 to the rating on pentium90 and you are close to the truth. Uri
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