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Subject: Re: The old chess program "OwlChess"

Author: Mike S.

Date: 10:16:48 01/10/01

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On January 09, 2001 at 11:27:18, Christophe Theron wrote:

>(...)
>
>It is a C++ port of the old and famous Borland Turbo Chess written by Kaare
>Danielsen (back in 1985!). More info about the author here:
>
>  http://www.danielsen.com/resume.shtml
>

Recently I bought one of the chess computers he has made the program for,
secondhand:

http://www.danielsen.com/chesscomputer.gif

It is the CXG Super Enterprise, one of the few machines I have a chance to beat.
In the following game, it played a nice trap (15.Bc5), but lost to Mirage 2.07
(the hardware imbalance was extreme of course):

Event "40/40:00...45:00"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2000.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "CXG Super Enterprise"]
[Black "Mirage 2.07 PII/333"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Nxc6 bxc6
8. O-O e5 9. Bc4 Be7 10. Qd3 O-O 11. Rb1 a5 12. Be3 Be6 13. Rfd1 Ng4
14. Bxe6 fxe6 15. Bc5 $5 {A trap!} 15... d5 (15... dxc5 16. Qh3 $16 Nxf2 $4 {
impossible} 17. Qxe6+) 16. Bxe7 Qxe7 17. Rd2 Qg5 18. exd5 Qf4 19. g3 Qh6 20. f3
e4 21. Qxe4 Qxd2 22. Qxe6+ Kh8 23. fxg4 Qf2+ 24. Kh1 Rae8 25. Qxe8 Rxe8 26.
dxc6 Rc8 27. Rd1 Qf3+ 28. Kg1 Qxc6 29. Ne2 Qb6+ 30. Nd4 Rxc2 31. b3 Rxa2 32.
Rd3 Qc5 0-1

Too bad that computerchess constantly looses such talented programmers like him;
other names like Ulf Rathsmann, D&K Spracklen etc. come to mind. :o(

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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