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Note also that lc0 has played more than 220 million games to reach this strength. Stockfish, in a certain sense, plays from a priori principles. So while stockfish crunches numbers in the game itself, lc0 has crunched them previously to learn the game. All the chess programs play millions of games ...

Hi, I think the company went bust pretty soon after release, so no more models.
Soon after someone connected with that company produced a lovely looking wooden machine called the L'Empereur.
Richard Lang was program writer, would like one of them in my collection.

The Constellation did have a official usa rating of 2018 from 1984.
2 or 3 models played in the US Open
Even though it is way to high it was the early days of humans facing strong programs and that makes a big difference, how much experience in playing computers.

Following with great interest. Well done.

It was often supposed that a doubling of speed gave program a 80elo increase. But I seem to remember Selective Search magazine brought this down to 50-60 as programs got stronger. Also the increases applied to computer verses computer, slightly less against humans. There was a computer that was ente...

Hi, these Tournaments are brilliant to follow. More interesting than one held between the stockfish's, Houdini 's etc when can't understand most of it and too many draws.
Your work is much appreciated.
MARK

Thanks for carrying out these match's. You will usually have a more one sided score when the same programs play a match when the only difference is speed of processor and RAM size, compared with different programs which generally get close to rating expectation. The reason is that the slower Genius ...

Always enjoy following match's like this. Well done and thanks

MARK (KASELDOP)

Hi
My predictions are :-
1 Hiarcs
2 The Baron
3 Nemeton
4 Arminius
5 The King
6 Sparticus
7 Embla

Last round moves by Hiarcs = 53

Not confident but let's make a start.

Regarding the earlier discussion whether larger Hash Tables ALWAYS produces better results. I remember in the 'Selective 'Search' magazine, (which I still have from 1992 until when it finished 2012?) where program owners who had the very latest PC's approx 1998, were struggling to find the right Has...