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Subject: Re: Ant361 (200MHz) plays skittles with Sargon III (8MHz), but only just...

Author: walter irvin

Date: 05:20:27 06/07/99

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On June 06, 1999 at 12:07:40, Francis Monkman wrote:

>A curio, I suppose. I wanted to try a 'lesser known' engine running at 200MHz
>against Sargon III running on an 8MHz Atari ST. Ant 361 was my chosen candidate,
>and it played a sufficiently bad move 12 (at 40/2, NB) to allow Sargon a real
>opportunity, (16. ...f6!?) which Sargon (hardly surprisingly I guess) allowed to
>slip by. Even then, it could maybe have locked the position (despite the rook
>buried on a6) and drawn? The final 'skittle run' following White's 46th is
>enjoyable to watch!
>
>[Event "London"]
>[Date "1999"]
>[White "Ant361(200MHz)"]
>[Black "SargonIII(8MHz)"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "B02"]
>
>1. e4  Nf6  2. Nc3  d5  3. exd5  Nxd5  4. Bc4  e6  5. Nf3  Be7  6. O-O

well i got a copy of sargon III, put it on my 300mhz mII and watched it get
thumped by the mach IV,finally in order to get sargon to win i had to put machIV
>O-O  7. Re1  Nc6  8. a4  Bb4  9. Bb5  Bd7  10. Nxd5  exd5  11. c3  Bd6
>12. Qb3  Bg4  13. Bxc6  bxc6  14. Ne5  Rb8  15. Qc2  Re8  16. d4  Qf6
>17. f4  Bf5  18. Qf2  Be7  19. g4  Bc8  20. b4  Qh4  21. g5  Qxf2+
>22. Kxf2  Rb6  23. a5  Ra6  24. Nd3  Kf8  25. Kf3  Be6  26. h4  Bd6
>27. Bd2  Rb8  28. Nc5  Bxc5  29. dxc5  Bf5  30. Re2  Bd3  31. Rf2  Re8
>32. Re1  Re4  33. Re3  Bc2  34. Rf1  Re7  35. Rxe7  Kxe7  36. Re1+  Be4+
>37. Ke3  f5  38. h5  Kd7  39. h6  g6  40. Kd4  Ke6  41. c4  Ke7
>42. Rc1  dxc4  43. Kxc4  Ke6  44. Re1  Ke7  45. Bc3  Kd7
>46. Rxe4  fxe4  47. f5  gxf5  48. g6  hxg6  49. h7  1-0
>
>40/2



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