Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 09:18:32 08/18/01
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On August 18, 2001 at 11:20:36, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Thorsten, > >Good game Mr. Czub. > > >Is that the $10,000.00 Mephisto Vancouver unit? Amazing what happened in ten >years. no - it is the normal commercial version, the one you think about was the 68030 with extra speed. the unit 68020 vancouver costed 4598,- DM in a tournament wooden board. it was 1991. jeroen noomen wrote an article about mephisto vancouver in computer schach and spiele. the title was: "more knowledge - more power". in vancouver won GIDEON by ed schröder with 6.0 from 7 on 86010 arm2 doing 32 Mhz (i still have such a card in my pc) followed by mchess 5.5. from 7 (mchess on a 486-33 Mhz), mephisto made 3rd rank on a dedicated chess computer on 68030 >50mhz. 4th was the king, johan de koning followed by spracklen and hiarcs. it was said that jan louwmann invested much testing time to help ed schroeder for vancouver preparations. he said 1300hours !! its sad that mchess is not playing anymore, or that hiarcs is not up to date anymore. in 1991 btw. the software FRITZ was born :-))) for 99,- DM, novag presented the novag scorpio. i remember this very well. i wrote articles for computer schach and spiele at those time, about johan de konings program the king on chess machine, about mchess, about novag scorpio, and and and. fidelity was still alive, the elite 2325 version 6 with 68020 cpu costed the same 4598,- DM. 1991 was the beginning of the first paderborn tournament. wow !! > >Tim Frohlick
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