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From: colas@avahi.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Chess-POrgrams
Message-ID: <1991Jan3.104614@avahi.inria.fr>
Date: 3 Jan 91 09:46:14 GMT
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In article <4Fg6u2w163w@edibox.in-berlin.de>, mozart@edibox.in-berlin.de (Thomas
Witt) writes:
> "" Sargon is the Program with the best algorithm.

Some time ago, looking for a chess program, I organized head-to-head matches
between programs, and in fact Psion Chess was the best one. Sargon wasn't bad
either, but chessmaster was ridiculous. The fun part was turning both program
"show analysis" option, and see that Psion and chessmaster anticipated totally
different moves!!! (of course psion was right, and each time, chessmaster was
in for a surprise...)

Too bad Psion wasn't ported on the amiga (or did I missed it?) Perhaps it can
run under Amax (it doesn't run under medusa -- too bad)

Of course, this isn't an answer to the original poster: psion chess is not fun
to play, it is too strong a program, and since it thinks during your time, it
can still humiliate me even at the lowest level... :-) On the other hand, I
only played with it, because it takes NO time to answer your move, since it
already analysed it...

PS: this was on atari STs and Macs, but should hold true for amiga (same cpus)

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