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Subject: Re: Do You know, that...

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 08:30:41 04/12/00

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On April 12, 2000 at 09:56:45, Michael Cummings wrote:

>On April 12, 2000 at 09:36:49, William H Rogers wrote:
>
>>On April 12, 2000 at 03:43:59, Michael Cummings wrote:
>>
>>>On April 12, 2000 at 03:27:03, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>... Garry Kasparov played simultan against 32 chess programs with score
>>>>+32,=0,-0 in 1985? Really unbelievable! Any quesses how will same kind of
>>>>match end today. Here's my: +15,=14,-3.
>>>>
>>>>JOuni
>>>
>>>Do you know what were the programs, and cosidering how many years ago, its not
>>>such a surprise.
>>>
>>>Back then I think my Tandy TRS80 Colour II computer was dishing me up Cyrus
>>>chess back then.
>>>
>>>These days I think the score would be allot different. I do not think his brain
>>>power could handle so many strong opponents
>>
>>The CoCo as it was called, used MicroChess 2.0, not Cyrus
>>Bill
>
>Nope I just checked, I have the tape and on the cover it is called Cyrus chess

You are correct, there was a version of Cyrus for most kinds of computers made
as I recall.  You can even download a Cyrus that more or less works on MS-Dos,
there are some problems running it however (not worth the effort).

But I think there was a version of Cyrus for no matter what you had.

Pete



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