Author: William H Rogers
Date: 08:45:32 04/13/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 16:21:58, Pete Galati wrote:
>On April 12, 2000 at 13:27:40, William H Rogers wrote:
>
>>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
>
>It must just be a conflict with my computer, I've just allways had trouble with
>it. If my memory's ok (sometimes it isn't) Cyrus actually had an acceptable 3D
>board. I shoud try it again, what the heck, I just downloaded "Mychess" the
>other day (again) and still haven't managed to get rid of it.
>
>At the moment Mychess is the oldest Chess program ('79) that I have, (that I
>know of), I'd be interested in finding to see if there's any Chess programs
>available for download that came from the '60s and also worked on MS operating
>system. I don't know of any.
>
>Pete
I have several and most are available at the major chess shareware sites. You
might not remember their names though. I also have MyChess by D.Kittinger
Bill
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