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Subject: Re: Need a list of the best chess dos programs

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 16:35:54 01/26/02

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On January 26, 2002 at 19:29:47, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>On January 26, 2002 at 17:24:20, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On January 26, 2002 at 17:09:53, walter irvin wrote:
>>
>>>On January 26, 2002 at 14:01:57, ERIQ wrote:
>>>
>>>>I am going to try to get them working in linux using dos emulator. I have
>>>>already got genius 2 working using wine but never tryed pure dos apts yet.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>my guess is that psion would be strong dos program .its very strong on very weak
>>>hardware .so if you put it on a 700 mhz or better who knows ,it was strong
>>>enough on a 4 mhz machine to destroy mach IV at 20 mhz 68020 .
>>
>>
>>I think Psion Chess for DOS was an early version of what later (essentially)
>>became Chess Genius for DOS.  Thus, I think the highest version of Chess Genius
>>(is that v3? v5?) that runs under DOS would be the strongest Richard Lang chess
>>program for DOS.  And it was a very strong DOS chess program!
>
>Genius 3 was the last Genius program to run strictly under DOS.  There is a DOS
>version for versions 4 and 5 also.


I would think, then, that Chess Genius 5 for DOS would be the strongest Richard
Lang chess program for DOS.  What are its (non-Lang) main competitors?  Rebel
Century, MChess Pro, the last DOS version of Fritz (v5.0?), Hiarcs 7.0, and what
else?



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