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From: chris@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Chess Program -Do you know a good one?
Keywords: Chess Program, Recommendation
Message-ID: <278@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 90 17:57:02 GMT
References: <3513@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <7402@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: chris@ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
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In article <7402@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes:
>In article <3513@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> halam2@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Haseen Alam) writes:
>> First I played at the lowest level on both, and then on the next higher
>> level.  The results were interesting, but the whole thing was getting boring
>> so I did not try out all the user levels.
>>
>> Whichever program started won the game, swapping machines had no effect.
>
>  Well, since the lower user levels in those programs are created by cutting
>off parts of the move search, that might not be a very good test.
>
>  The best test is to run them against each other at the highest level.
>That way you can see the strengths and weaknesses in their actual,
>unhandicapped game.  It's quite possible that they are aggressive players at
>low levels and at high levels are more "reserved" in their actions, so to
>speak.

	Interestingly enough (to me :-), I'm involved in just such a project
at the moment.  I am playing GNU Chess 3.0 (on a Sun 4/260) against Sargon III
on my Mac Plus, giving GNU around 24 hours a move (!) and Sargon around 1.
Please, don't beat me up for being biased :-) because I am doing this to test
some of GNU's features to make sure they work before committing it to some
postal-chess type games over the CHESS-L group.

	So far the game is pretty slow going; GNU is looking ahead about 10-12
moves, Sargon about 7, and very little has happened.  Contact me directly
if you'd like the move list.

	-- chris sterritt

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