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

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 10:27:40 04/12/00

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On April 12, 2000 at 11:30:41, Pete Galati wrote:

>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
My mistake, I worked for RS once and the only one I saw was MC 2.0
By the way I have Cyrus for dos and it works fine. I think it was written by
David Levy and an associate.
Bill




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