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Subject: Re: 2 GAMES CTP 14.9 BETA2 AGAINST CST 1 easter version and Pharaon 2.62

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 10:45:46 04/02/02

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On April 02, 2002 at 10:48:13, Christophe Theron wrote:

>I remember Frank ZIBI (author of Pharaon) demoing his HP calculator based chess
>program against a P75 chess program.
>
>It was in 1996, at the French Computer Chess Championship. Frank was not
>participating because he had no PC based chess program at that time. He had
>lended me his P133 so Tiger 8 could participate.
>
>His HP program managed to get a draw against the P75! We were all amazed.
>


Was there really a program for a handheld calculator that played 100% legal
chess?

Was it the only such program ever to do so?  How strong was it?  Could you
elaborate on this whole topic please (it's fascinating!)?

• Re: 2 GAMES CTP 14.9 BETA2 AGAINST CST 1 easter version and Pharaon 2.62 Franck ZIBI 02:12:09 04/03/02
  • Re: 2 GAMES CTP 14.9 BETA2 AGAINST CST 1 easter version and Pharaon 2.62 Roy Eassa 05:49:18 04/03/02
    • Re: 2 GAMES CTP 14.9 BETA2 AGAINST CST 1 easter version and Pharaon 2.62 Christophe Theron 17:08:55 04/03/02
• Re: 2 GAMES CTP 14.9 BETA2 AGAINST CST 1 easter version and Pharaon 2.62 Christophe Theron 11:38:32 04/02/02
  • pocket calculator playing chess Thorsten Czub 11:59:02 04/02/02

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