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Subject: Re: CSTal2.03-Nimzo98, games 8-10/10, finished

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 02:50:49 09/24/99

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On September 24, 1999 at 01:23:57, Harald Faber wrote:

>Now it is done. My small EXAMPLE tournament, especially been setup for Thorstens
>sceptical view is finished.

thanks harald.

>Now I am curious which excuses Thorsten can present as I used his recommended
>settings (except that I have no AMD-K6-3-500 for CST on which CST may have a
>chance against Nimzo98 on MMX166 :-)).

it makes no difference. you can use the same machines or slower ones.
cstal win likes >=400 machines, cstal-dos likes 200Mhz machines.
This has to do with programming-progress and tuning on state of the art
programs.


>CSTal palys interesting games, no doubt, but the sacs and the play is not as
>sound as the King's, WChess and others.

it was not designed to play what YOU call "sound" sacs.
it was designed to play chess. not to play machine-chess.


>So goodbye Tal from my harddisk...

i think this is the best thing harald.

For US too.




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