Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 16:10:24 04/15/99
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On April 15, 1999 at 09:25:41, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 15, 1999 at 01:29:09, Paulo Soares wrote: > >>All people know that Pelé and Michael Jordan had been the >>best athletes of all the times in the soccer and basket >>(I wait that no Argentine reads this). Which was the >>best chess program of all the times? >>In my opinion, "Psion", of Richard Lang. >> >>Regards, >> >>Paulo Soares, from Brazil > >In my opinion, it is Sargon II (Dan and Kathe Spracklen, 1979). This engine on a >6502 processor has beaten several mainframes in an official event. > >Or maybe an engine from Richard Lang, maybe the one that was in the Mephisto >Amsterdam. It was such a "quantum leap" at that time (1985). > >Or maybe the version of Rebel that ran on a small ChessMachine in Madrid in >1992. This one too has beaten a fast multiprocessor program. > > > Christophe Agree with all the above but don´t forget Fidelity Prestige 1982, I still play with it from time to time.I remember Smyslov lost a blitz game against it. Sargon2 was a major step it crushed Chess challenger 7,10, Voice Boris and the rest. Chessmachine was a wonder in 1991. Genius1 and Genius2 were outstanding 1992-1993. Bertil SSDF
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