Author: John Alfred
Date: 01:52:01 08/15/01
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On August 14, 2001 at 13:01:13, Roy Eassa wrote: >On August 14, 2001 at 07:40:47, John Alfred wrote: > >>Do you know of any attempts by anyone at a chess coprocessor daughterboard? >>(apart from anything to do with Deep Blue) >> > >There was a device called "The Chess Machine" that was sold as an ISA card for >the PC. You ran a special app and this card "took over", essentially replacing >your main CPU for the duration of your chess play/study. It had a nice >mouse-based GUI and loads of features, and played quite well for its time (back >in the DOS days). Its claim to fame was that it could turn a slow PC (e.g., >PC-XT) into a strong chess program, and it lived up to that. As PC CPUs got >faster, the Chess Machine lost its market and got quite cheap. > >I'm sure that's not exactly what you asked, but I wonder if somebody could pull >the same (or similar -- true coprocessor?) trick off today, in a world with 1.5+ >GHz main CPUs. Hi Roy, Thats interesting to hear! Any idea what processor it used and what the Elo rating was? Best wishes John
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