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Subject: Re: Chess Challengers, old SciSys, Novags and Mephistos

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 10:49:16 04/17/98

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On April 17, 1998 at 08:22:48, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>On April 17, 1998 at 01:34:13, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>I remember playing once in a store against a Scisys model which had a
>>mechanical arm. It was maybe christmas 1981 or 1982? It moved the pieces
>>itself! The program was Sargon 2.5 I think. People from the store had to
>>throw me out every evening!
>
>
>If it had a robotic arm, it was the Robot Adversary by Novag,
>programmed by Dave Kittinger.
>-Steve

It is strange, because I remember the unit seemed to be exactly the one
of the Sargon 2.5 or Morphy computer.

Maybe I'm just mixing two old memories...


    Christophe



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