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Subject: Re: A new chess program on the horizon?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 21:43:46 11/17/01

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On November 16, 2001 at 10:56:23, Colin Frayn wrote:

>On November 16, 2001 at 10:26:21, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>This wouldn't be the first time Microsoft has written a chess program. See
>>http://www.freewarenet.com/downloads/games/microsoftchess.shtml
>
>I actually remember that one.  I particularly remember the fact that it had the
>same bug of an original version of ColChess, namely that the king would
>occasionally disappear, a series of illegal moves would be generated and then
>the program crashed.  I kid you not.
>
>Let's hope they've improved since these days.
>
>Cheers,
>Col



It was just a lousy port of Turbo Chess. That's mentionned in the help file.



    Christophe



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