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Subject: Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking?

Author: Rich Van Gaasbeck

Date: 16:20:34 03/06/02

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>A 4 plies search on this kind of computer would take a really long time by
>todays standards (more than one minute IIRC).
>
>At level one I guess all it can do is 1 or 2 plies.

I think I used to play most games a level 2.  It didn't seem to miss many
two-move tactics, but maybe I made a lot that it never took advantage of and I
never new I allowed.


>
>I also believe the Chess Challenger 7 and Chess Challenger 10 were using a
>selective search, but it was prone to many kinds of errors.
>
>But at that time they were great machines. I remember playing many games (I
>still have the games scores somewhere here) circa 1980 against the Chess
>Challenger 10 (it was not mine), and it has been with the Boris computers and
>the Sargon II program on TRS-80 the begining of my passion for computer chess.
>
>


I'll never be a grandmaster, I may never be a master, but someday, I'll crush my
CC7 like a bug :-).  Kasparov has Karpov, I have CC7.

>
>    Christophe

• Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Christophe Theron 19:25:50 03/06/02
  • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Uri Blass 19:41:53 03/06/02
    • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Christophe Theron 10:38:13 03/07/02
      • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Roy Eassa 12:47:19 03/07/02
        • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Uri Blass 08:12:47 03/08/02
        • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Fernando Villegas 13:15:45 03/07/02
          • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Christophe Theron 07:53:25 03/08/02

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