Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:20:53 02/16/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 04:02:16, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >I had an idea tonight: I would watch Genius (on my Palm III) crush TSCP (on my >Celeron/400). > >Well, that idea backfired. > >I played two games between the programs. Genius was set to 1 sec/move for both >games. TSCP was set to 5 sec/move for the first game and it absolutely crushed >Genius. I figured the hardware advantage was way too big, so I set TSCP to 4 ply >and played another game. TSCP crushed Genius again. > >Then a friend of mine came to visit. He's rated ~1500 blitz on some chess >servers. I asked him to play Genius. I wouldn't say he crushed Genius, but he >did win after 30 or 40 moves. And he was playing faster than Genius, too. > >I watched all 3 games, and Genius was making some very weird moves. It seemed to >cripple its own pawn structure on purpose, and it kept moving its pieces to the >corners. > >Comments??? > >-Tom This may not be so unusual. When you use a 'blender' chip to play chess, it is going to be very slow. Or, since the program is very new (are you running a 'bought' version or a 'demo' version?) ti might just have some horrible bugs in it, or it might be intentionally dumbed-down (demo version).
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