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AFAIK Ivan the Terrible has the same program as Excalibur Igor 711, is this correct ?
A few years later a "trimmed-down eunuch-version" of Igor (711-E2) was secretly released, which played about 500 elo weaker.
Is there such a thing also at Ivan the Terrible ?
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I expect the chess engine to be very similar between: Mirage, 1st and 2nd version of Ivan The Terrible, 1st version of Igor, Grandmaster.
Igor and Grandmaster have 1KB RAM, Ivan and Mirage have 2KB RAM, so maybe the latter 2 are a bit stronger? I don't know how the extra RAM is managed.
Igor versions, from Ron Nelson's notes.
1997,711E,Igor,Hitachi HD6433214P12 (H8/3214),5/5/1997,H8/3214 32-KByte ROM; 1-KByte RAM; 12 MHz,EWIG
2000,711E-2,Igor II,Samsung KS57C2308,10/4/2000,4-Bit core SAM47 KS57C2308 8K Bytes ROM 512 Nibble Ram 1.0MHz,EWIG
So yes, the 2nd version is weaker hardware.
There is no rerelease of Ivan The Terrible on a weaker CPU AFAIK. In fact, the 2nd H8 version of Ivan The Terrible may be even a bit stronger, since it's on a 12MHz H8 instead of 10MHz(20/2).