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Subject: Re: old and very old programs, colossus chess... sargon...

Author: Mike S.

Date: 07:32:48 01/28/01

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On January 28, 2001 at 08:36:59, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>(...)

>>>that is right. although i think it is a pity that e.g. people like spracklan and
>>>also martin bryant do not program chess anymore.
>>>i miss them and their efforts. the spracklan programs played interesting.
>>>not too good in tactics. often creative. also colossus chess4 i remember very
>>>good. it was on my cpc464 it played very interesting selective chess, IMO
>>>even better than colossus chess X later on Atari or PC.
>>>what a pity.
>>
>>Hey ... I remember Colossus also ... played that on my Acorn BBC Master comp! I
>>must still have that somewhere. If I remember correctly that was the first time
>>I saw 'Null Moves'. The mainline on screen even had 'Null' moves in it! That
>>sure was strange ... but it's a loooong time ago, at least it feels that way ...
>
>I remember Colossus too, but for me it was on a commodore 64 :)
>After a quick search I found Colossus for commodore 64 there :
>http://www.lemon64.com/
>the loading page was one of the more beautyfull for this time ... :)

For some nostalgia:

http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/museum/museum1.htm
http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/museum/museum2.htm

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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