Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:31:55 02/08/99
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On February 07, 1999 at 09:59:33, Roy Brunjes wrote:
>On February 07, 1999 at 09:31:54, Goette Patrick wrote:
>
>>I would like to know if someone has informations, or path to get some
>>informations about Sargon III ( date of creation, ELO level, name of constructor
>>etc.) Thank you in advance. P.Goette
>
>Well, I can give you the creators of Sargon (in general): Dan and Kathe
>Spracklen. They no longer write chess programs as I understand it. Sargon (I
>think it was III, could have been Sargon II) had the honor of defeating a
>mainframe chess program in a tournament game. I used to run it on my Apple II
>computer -- my guess was its ELO was somewhere around 1500 (about 1700 USCF).
>
>Roy
I had ('have' actually if I dust off my Apple) Sargon II but don't know if it
was quite as strong as 1500 (though certainly at faster time controls). I think
Chessmaster 2000 was around that.
Albert Silver
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