Author: Pete Galati
Date: 15:19:55 01/13/01
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On January 13, 2001 at 15:57:57, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Dear CCC, > >I was in White Rock, British Columbia last week visiting my octogenarian >parents. I, once upon a time, gave Dad my old 386/387 coprocessor machine so >that he could have fun in his retirement. WinChess version 1.0 was one of the >programs I put on it back in the early 1990's . Plays chess like an average >chess club player. I beat it mercilessly. I enjoyed seeing the machine squirm. >Of course, I do not think that 6-ply to 7-ply searches were very thrilling when >we are getting 12 to 18 ply searches at the present. The play, when compared to >Gambit Tiger was boring and the program only had a 13000 move opening book. >Nonetheless, it was pure pleasure crushing the moron. > > >Tim "Retroman" Frohlick My opinion is that the free Dos Chess programs were MUCH better than the free 16bit Chess programs. If you wanted to put something on that old machine that might still be chalanging on a slow computer, Dos programs like Now or Ychess would both be good selections. Now is still one of my favorites, I think Dann offers a download of that now. It's butt ugly, and you sort of need to remember some commands if you want to adjust things, but this program can have a mercyless streak, it was strong for it's time. And it can be run on computers older than your father's. Zillions of things you can adjust in Now. Pete
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