[Computer-go] Those were the days ...

[Michael Sué]

 > Remember 1998: In the US Go Congress an exhibition match
 > took place: 5-dan Martin Mueller against Many Faces of Go.
 > Martin gave 29 handicap stones - and won "handily".
 > 29 stones - can you believe it?

Martin Mueller, 5d, won an H-29 game against a 1998 go-program that ran 
run on a 1998 computer. So, in order to reproduce the playing strength 
of the old program and get a fair comparison it should again run on an 
old machine while the modern go-programs use today's hardware.
- Michael.