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Subject: Re: Wanted: Old Fidelity Chess Computer Mach IV

Author: John Dijkstra

Date: 23:39:32 08/08/99

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On August 08, 1999 at 03:32:43, allan johnson wrote:

>On August 07, 1999 at 14:17:17, walter irvin 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.
>> well i got a mach IV master , id consider selling .
>>i used to measure every program i ever bought by how it did against mach and
>>still do sometimes .you would be surprised by some of the scalps to the machs
>>credit .rebel 8,rebel 10,cm4000,mchess pro 3.5,me,sapphire,a 2405 rated guy on
>>the icc,drew but never beat crafty ,fritz 3 and 4,comet,ychess.the programs that
>>give it severe problems are.
>>1.cm6000
>>2.crafty
>>3.hiarcs
>>4.psion
>>just about in that order
>>the machIV is 68020 20 mhz but until i started running programs at 300 mhz cyrix
>>my programs had a hard time with the mach .sure makes me wonder how strong the
>>mach would be if i could run it at 300 mhz??
> Hey Walter How would the Mach IV go against the Risc 1? I'm currently
>playing it against cm6000 at 30sec a move and the first two games have been
>drawn.In fact in both games cm6000 had the Risc in front (2.28 in one game)
>but Risc blew two difficult endings.The Risc also beat Tal 2  at the same time
>settings.Yet when it gets beaten it gets beaten badly.Another thing I've
>noticed is that it is a lot slower than the pc programmes at solving any
>set position.For example cm6000 finds the answer to the following puzzle in
>10seconds whereas Risc took 30 minutes.4K1kr/4B1Pp/7P/4P3/8/3P4/8/5q2/w...
> Still I think it's a pretty good programme and would be interested to hear
>yours and other people's thoughts on it.
>Allan


Hi Alan,

Thanks for your offer. You know, it may be hard to set up a deal because I
forgot to mention that I live in The Netherlands.

John



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