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Subject: Re: The worst chessprogram I ever seen is in Excalibur LCD chess

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 09:04:04 12/14/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 09:16:23, Joshua Lee wrote:

>You can win a piece out of the opening quite easily against this little demon
>but don't be so sure that it won't fight..... then again i had it set to level
>73 and would force it to move after atleast 3 minutes....
>  I got the game because it was the only handheld chess game i knew of but i
>found one since then by millineum but i think i'll wait .... my problems is that
>the thing doesn't resign so you have to play out a won game
>and the other thing is the sounds i think they can be fancier like the shuffling
>of pieces before the start of a game and with the power requirements of laptops
>i think they could easily make a handheld ...well more like a simi portable with
>a pentium hard drives are so small in physical size but internally so big you
>could have the program and 3,4,5,6 man endgame tablebases with pawns
>just a thought

An interesting question is on which level does it not give away the bishop? I
mean that the level when it does so perhaps is kind of handicap level even if it
is not defined as that.

Georg




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