oops, I meant Zchess, sorry

[Pete Galati]

Hi WinBoard Fan's
32MHz gegen 459MHZ. Saphire II macht eine sehr gute Figur gegen Dchess. Momentan steht es 10-3 für Saphire II.(Blitz, 5 Min. / Partie)
MfG Clemens
Hi WinBoard fans!
32MHz against 459MHZ. Saphire II looks pretty good against Dchess.after 15 Blitz matches(5 min. /game) Saphire II leads clear with 10-3 points.
kind regards Clemens

I'm unclear on how you can run a blitz match between a standalone Chess program and a Winboard program.
Pete

Hi Pete
Novag Saphire II is able to play at Internet chess servers! It uses a 'Distributorbox' and is playing by using the WinBoard GUI in zippy mode(with all zippy features!).
Thats cool-is'nt it?!!
regards Clemens

That sounds very cool, I never heard of that. I just dug it up in a catalog and it's a little hand held computer! Wow.
Pete

hi Pete
here are the Finger notes from Saphire II( I think it's interesting for U):
Statistics for SapphireII(C) On for: 1 day, 3 hours, 19 minutes and 28
\ seconds Idle: 5 mins
rating RD win loss draw total best
Blitz 2075 23.8 3228 1156 345 4729 2210 (06-Oct-98)
Standard 2103 37.8 1386 397 140 1923 2215 (02-Mar-99)
Lightning 2032 39.0 597 299 56 952 2287 (06-Apr-99)
Wild ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0
Bughouse ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0
Crazyhouse ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0
Suicide ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0

Timeseal : On
1: Novag Sapphire II portable chess computer (32 MHz H8).
2: Autoplaying using the Novag Distributor, WinBoard, and a custom autoplayer.
3: Run by IanO
4: Autoplayer noplays briefly after five games in a row to let others play.
5: Message me if you own a Novag computer with serial port.
6: Crafty clones on fast HW: pick on someone your own size.
7: I'm working out some autoplayer bugs. If it hangs with plenty of time
\ left, please adjourn and resume.
regars Clemens

Clemens,
I'm just curious about how well it does against Zchess, have you played it against that program yet? It's a Winboard program that I've been very impressed with. I always thought that Zchess could play some rather surprising combinations.
Pete

Pete,
YChess ...
For 2 1/2 years I play an tournament with ...
Centaur, YChess, Diogenes, Now, Zarkov 2.51, RexChess 2.3, InterChess (alias Goliath in text mode), Sibirian Chess, Mirage and more (Pentium 166) !
This tournament (swiss system) win YChess and Zarkov 5,0/6 and 3. Diogenes 2.3 4,0/6 !
I see that YChess play an fantastic chess and I think that YChess play with 2350 ELO ! And YChess - Saitek Sparc 20 MHz (1 minute for move, YChess on Pentium 166) 13,5 : 16,5 !
Kind regards
Frank

Frank,
I meant to say Zchess (Franck Zibi's), I got it right in the body of my post but I put the wrong program in the header part, I'm sorry. But yes, Ychess! Ychess is a great program, another one of my favorite programs, that's probably why I mixed them up. I have to sit down and put together a list of programs that use a letter of the alphabet and then Chess, Like: Ychess, Zchess, Dchess, Kchess, Uchess, (I think of Exchess as being Xchess) that's all I can come up with.
Pete

[Andreas Herrmann]

Hello Pete,

I meant to say Zchess (Franck Zibi's), I got it right in the body of my post but I put the wrong program in the header part, I'm sorry. But yes, Ychess! Ychess is a great program, another one of my favorite programs, that's probably why I mixed them up. I have to sit down and put together a list of programs that use a letter of the alphabet and then Chess, Like: Ychess, Zchess, Dchess, Kchess, Uchess, (I think of Exchess as being Xchess) that's all I can come up with.

you forgotten LChess (Lex Loep) and MChess (Marty Hirsch)
Andreas

[Pete Galati]

Hello Pete,

I meant to say Zchess (Franck Zibi's), I got it right in the body of my post but I put the wrong program in the header part, I'm sorry. But yes, Ychess! Ychess is a great program, another one of my favorite programs, that's probably why I mixed them up. I have to sit down and put together a list of programs that use a letter of the alphabet and then Chess, Like: Ychess, Zchess, Dchess, Kchess, Uchess, (I think of Exchess as being Xchess) that's all I can come up with.

you forgotten LChess (Lex Loep) and MChess (Marty Hirsch)
Andreas

Then to drift farther from the original topic, the catagory of Simple Chess programs that many people aren't so aware of: TSCP (Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess program), SCP (John Stanbeck's Chess program, gnuchess grew from this) and MSCP (Marcel van Kervinck Simple Chess Program).
Pete