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

Author: Kevin Miller

Date: 20:26:56 12/14/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 06:03:29, Georg Langrath wrote:

>I read a review of Excalibur LCD chess on http://www.chesscafe.com/
>There they gave an example of its playing:
>1. e4 c6 2. d3 e5 3. f4  Bb4+ 4. c3 exf4
>In other word it gave away a bishop for a pawn. I asked  them if that wasn’t on
>a handicap level. It was not!
>I am no strong chessplayer and don’t need a strong chessprogram, but this is the
>worst I ever seen. It doesn’t even look 1 move forward. It is as a bad joke.
>I think that LCD chess is a good idea, but where did they found a miserable
>program like this?
>
>Georg

Heheh -- I remember owning the handheld Tryom Chess waaaay back in the early
1980s. It was absolutely horrendous and cheated as well! I then bought a Radio
Shack chess computer, which was marginally better. I still consider ny first
true chess computer (such as it was back then) my Applied Concepts Morphy
Encore.

<sigh>



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