Author: Pete Galati
Date: 11:19:43 04/13/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 11:45:32, William H Rogers wrote:
>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
But I've never seen a download Chess program that claimed to be from before
1970, what do you have that claims to be that old? I suppose I should do a
search of the web with specifically that as a search, I've never done that.
Btw, I did retry Cyrus, and it's running ok from Win98, but Windows claims that
it performed an illeagal funtion and wants me to restart the computer, I'm
pretty sure that warning doesn't need to be taken very seriouslly.
But Cyrus it dated mid '80s so Mychess is older at '79.
Pete
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