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Subject: Re: informations on chess program Sargon III

Author: Goette Patrick

Date: 11:05:08 02/08/99

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Thank you for your precisions. P.Goette


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



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