Author: Randolph S. Baker
Date: 06:45:52 10/08/97
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On October 05, 1997 at 08:24:08, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >On October 05, 1997 at 05:59:21, Robert Sullivan wrote: > >>I have a Fidelity Chess Challenger, which has a clock speed of 3mHz. If >>one played the newer programs against Fidelity with the maximum ply >>searched held equal, would this result in a comparison of the relative >>strengths of each program, independent of processor speed? In other >>words, would this exercise yield information about which program played >>the "best" chess? > >I don't think so. If you test, for example, Hiarcs 6 and Fritz 5 at >equal ply levels, H6 would win hands down. It's more a matter of >computing time. > >Playing one of the best current programs against a state of the art of >some 15 years ago on equal platforms would be interesting. Say one of >the Sargon programs, also by the Spracklen like your Challenger, against >Rebel, Hiarcs, Mchess, Genius or Fritz. This might give us an idea about >the advances in programs during the last 15 years. It might also bring >some light about this discussion I had with Bob a few months ago, where >he said programs didn't improve qualitatively in this period of time and >I disagreed with him. > >Enrique > Even as only a 1500 or so player, I advanced to where I could consistently beat my Fidelity Chess Challenger on any of its levels. (This was around 1980, so it has been quite a while and they might have improved the performance since). I could also beat Sargon 3, but of course at the time it was lucky to completely explore 5 plies in the middlegame on my PCJr. Both seemed to have extremely poor endgame knowledge as I recall. Today's programs (Fritz, Hiarcs, CM5000) eat me for breakfast 8-). I did play Sargon 5 against CM4000 a couple of times, and CM4000 won all the games (but it wasn't a statistically significant sample). Randy >>Robert
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