Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 08:51:51 02/08/99
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On February 08, 1999 at 07:31:55, Albert Silver wrote:
>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
Sargon II was nowhere near that strong, but I think Sargon III was at least
close to 1700 USCF on an Apple II. I could be wrong of course. Sargon III was
a fairly substantial jump in playing strength as I recall.
Roy
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