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Subject: Re: Old computers still strike hard: Kasparov Risc 2500 Vs Sharpchess

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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