Author: Pete Galati
Date: 23:55:24 01/18/00
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On January 19, 2000 at 02:41:00, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 I have this unfortunate tendency to houseclean my directories and throw out pgn files that I don't think are too important, and it is posible that I never did save both games, because I played them with the Dos version of Comet, and at that time I probably didn't know how to save games in that Comet yet, now I spend more time in the Dos Comet because it's become my favorite program, so I now realize how easy that would have been. But it seems to me that I posted one of those games here, I have no idea how long ago that was, I have no intention of digging through the archives (I might _not_ have posted the game) Pete
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