Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 07:53:40 01/28/02
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So do we have a list now? The strongest DOS chess programs, in no particular order: Rebel Century Fritz (last DOS version) Chess Tiger (last DOS version) Hiarcs (last DOS version) Chess Genius (last DOS version) MChess Pro On January 27, 2002 at 21:55:42, Mike Hood wrote: >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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