Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!yale!husc6!husc4!fry_b
From: fry_b@husc4.harvard.edu (david fry)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.games.chess
Subject: Re: Places in Vancouver? Really Chess programs.
Message-ID: <356@husc6.HARVARD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 17:05:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: husc6.356
Posted: Wed Oct  8 17:05:51 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Oct-86 22:44:20 EDT
References: <2440@garfield.UUCP> <363@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> <3890@amdahl.UUCP>
Sender: news@husc6.HARVARD.EDU
Reply-To: fry_b@husc4.UUCP (david fry)
Organization: Harvard Science Center
Lines: 20
Xref: mnetor net.micro.amiga:5159 net.games.chess:540

In article <3890@amdahl.UUCP> kim@amdahl.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
...
>I am a moderately good player (no USCF rating though), and it gives
>me a good game at the mid-range levels of difficulty ... haven't
>really tried the higher levels, but I suspect it can beat me fairly
>regularly in that range, which is what I want out of a chess program
>(that's how we learn, right?)
>
>I wish there were some approximation of its difficulty levels to the
>USCF ratings ... anyone know what Sargon III is rated at?
>
Sargon III is rated at 1850 on the Mac.  The New York Times said a
couple of weeks ago that Chessmaster had a provisional rationg over
2000 as a result of its winning the Microcomputer championship.


David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
Department of Mathematics		fry@harvma1.bitnet
Harvard University			fry%huma1@harvsc4.bitnet
Cambridge, MA  02138			...!harvard!huma1!fry