Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 23:06:10 02/27/99
Just before I took my dogs for a walk up in the hills of Albuquerque, I decided to download the Rebel 10c upgrade. I was amazed that the Benchtest program rated my machine at 2596. This was a 60 point increase. I was ecstatic and played a couple of quick games and was quickly dispatched. Energized by this new chess terror, I embarked on a short four mile hike among the coyotes. Going up the hill a guy in a pickup truck races by and shouts, "Have a nice day!" He turns around and I holler back "Happy New Year!!!" They get out of the truck and go to a nearby house. I say, " I thought you guys won the lottery!" Everybody laughs. In the distance I hear the yipping of the coyote pack. I get home and take a close look at the benchtest and find as did Francois Bertin that the program only analyzes the middle chess problem and gives a -1 second time for the first and the last. What? Could this be a bug? I play another game and take it to a KPQ vs K ending and predict a mate in 14. The program cogitated and made good moves and found a mate in 7, seven moves later. So what we have here is a very good program but it is not a quantum jump. It is more of a yip and not a howl.
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