Author: Tom Likens
Date: 19:54:02 06/04/05
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On June 04, 2005 at 19:22:20, Fernando Villegas wrote: >After playing Kasparov at 40 moves in one hour, with a draw as a result, I >pitted the old, venerable machine, against a freeware, Sharpchess, at 20 >seconds per move. As you can imagine, Sharpchess runned in my Pc with a >processor many many times faster than the one in Kasparov, but even so Kaspy had >the high hand. >The position ended like this: > >6k1/4p2p/6p1/8/p7/5PK1/6PP/8 b - - 1 38 > >There I said it was enough. Kaspy, with blacks, showed that a good program is >still far superior to an average engine, no matter how much faster is. > >If I can get the full game from the bowels of sharpchess and you are interested, >It will be publizshed here. > >Fernando My memory may be faulty, but wasn't this program an early version of "The King" by Johan de Koning? --tom
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