Author: walter irvin
Date: 12:02:30 08/08/99
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On August 08, 1999 at 14:43:31, Alan Grotier wrote: >On August 08, 1999 at 13:04:24, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On August 07, 1999 at 15:03:37, Alan Grotier wrote: >> >>>On August 07, 1999 at 14:21:46, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>> >>>>On August 07, 1999 at 08:25:26, Paulo Soares wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 07, 1999 at 06:18:43, John Dijkstra wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>I am looking for an old Fidelity Mach IIIc or Mach IV to buy. >>>>> >>>>>Mach III, if I am not missed, was the first program to exceed >>>>>the 2000 rating in SSDF. >>>>> >>>>>Paulo Soares >>>> >>>> >>>>Nope. The first (2100 or so) was Par Excellence in 1986. But yes, it was also an >>>>Spracklen program as Mach series. >>>>fernando >>> >>>Yes, But the Par Excellence was the worst program that Fidelity ever developed! >>>Very limited opening book,(adapted only to defeat Lang programs) features etc. >>> >>>Alan. >> >>Hi Alan: >>I cannot agree with you. Par Excellence could have had a shallow book, but his >>engine was pretty good. I have used it one and again to defeat some famous top >>programs on the 90's. But even if you see Par as awful, at leats was far >>superior to the previous, Ron Nelson crop of the end 70's and beginning 80's. >>Fernando > >Fernando, > Yes,far superior to those programs.But I think Fidelity was much more >interested in getting a computor rating when it developed the Par Excellence >than giving customer satisfaction. >Never the less Fidelity lead the pack during the 80's and developed some really >increadable programes for the time. > >Salut:Alan i think its too bad that the spracklens are not making chess software still,i think a program like the mach IV on a 400 or 500 mhz machine would be real tuff maybe even on par with the better programs today .
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