Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:25:22 12/27/99
After my post about Sargon and its supposed strenght in current hardware and the post that replied it, I must do some additional comments. It seems -and I say it with tears in my eyes- that my impression about that has less to do with the force of the program that with my pathetic weakness. Fact is that sometimes, playing with current programs, whith which you know in advance that you will be trounced, you just forget that old ones also defeat you most of the time, if not because of its positional acumen, at least by its far superior tactical strenght. So the lesson: time goes and vanish and you -me- still are the same moron on the board. To see that sad fact it has been enough for me just to look at Schredder cutting in pieces Sargon in a 30 seconds per move game. Instructive game it was, the best example I could imagine of why actual sotware is inmensely superior respect old one. I will post it if someone is interested. Harware as explanation? Not at all. Sargon was run in my fastest computer and Schredder in my slowest, a 200 MMX. So it was a big mistake from my part just even to exhumate old poor Sargon, although was a mistake that I accept with happyness as much as, at the same time, now I feel justified in my perpetual purchases and so I have nothing to be sorry about.... Fernando, with tears...etc...
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