Author: Dick Schneiders
Date: 10:13:33 02/12/05
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On February 12, 2005 at 11:21:02, Michael Watters wrote: > >Playing against each other on Level A1, with easy mode switched off, the Eyeball >generally plays quicker than the Phantom and throws in the odd blunder. In four >games the Eyeball was soundly thrashed before the late middlegame each time. It >looks to me that at least A1, and possibly other levels, were deliberately >weakened on the Chesster Eyeball. This may have been appropriate with the >coaching/entertainment features of the Chesster and a wider spread of strength >levels was increasingly a feature of chess computers in the 1990s. > >Perhaps my Phantom is one of the earlier ones, and the Eyeball was produced >years later? The Phantom has the gold/black/red colour scheme, the Eyeball the >white/black/green colour scheme. Is this significant? > >All the best >Mike Mike, Those color schemes are the same as on my 6100 and 6126. Thanks for comparing your two machines. Those are exactly the same symptoms that my Eyeball is exhibiting. The "odd blunder" was what concerned me the most. My 6100 never made these sorts of blunders, and neither has my SC9 in the 20 some years I owned it. I was worried that after spending so much money on the Eyeball, it had a faulty processor. I have been using the 6126 at level A2 for a couple of days, and it has not made any of these obvious blunders. Since I am a very new owner of both of these machines, I didn't know quite what to expect from them. However, I certainly didn't expect either of them to be weaker than my SC9 at the lowest level on each of the machines. I appreciate your taking the time to confirm that your Phantoms are working as mine do. Dick Schneiders
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