Author: Mike Hood
Date: 18:55:42 01/27/02
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On January 26, 2002 at 19:35:54, Roy Eassa wrote: >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? The highest DOS program in the current SSDF list is Chess Tiger 12. My personal favorite DOS program, which is still installed on an old PC of mine, is Fritz 3. This was the last DOS version of Fritz, and it was included on the Fritz 5.32 CD. It's a beautifully compact program, unlike today's Windows bloatware. The installation file is only 500 KB, and even after installing the program it takes up less than a megabyte on my hard drive.
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