Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:41:00 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 20:53:52, Pete Galati wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 16:58:09, William H Rogers wrote: > >>On January 18, 2000 at 14:27:41, pavesyles wrote: >> >>>say its ashame someone couldnt induce these two to write a new pc programm. say >>>how many people might like that? >> >> >>It seems that people forget about Sargon 3,4, and 5. Sargon 5 was rated about >>2200-2300 on a 486-33 computer. Just how much stronger it would be on a Pentium >>500, remains to be seen. As a matter of fact, I think that I will try it >>against CM6000 for a couple of games just for fun. Neither one will run on >>autoboards. >> By the way I own all of the Sargons from 1 to 5, but 1 and 2 only run on a >>TRS-80 computer. >> >>Bill > >I don't want to disillusion you at all, but I had run a couple of games between >Sargon 5 and Comet, Comet did a pretty good job beating up on Sargon, so I don't >think Sargon stands a chance against CM6000. > >But for what it's worth, it's probably worth running the games anyhow just to >see some good games. Sargon's a cool old program, but figure that CM will >probably be a steam roller in comparison. > >For some reason I can't find any game files from Comet/Sargon games so I must >not have saved them, too bad, they were very time consuming. > >Pete Yeah, often people don't bother to save the games when one machine just beats another up really badly. Somehow, I can imagine this observation being relevant in at least one of those computer chess threads that lies dormant from time to time, until its next outburst. Dave
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