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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