Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:45:31 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 02:49:20, Mike Byrne wrote: >On May 30, 2002 at 00:04:09, Terry Ripple wrote: > >>I just acquired this beauty. The board has one and one-eighth squares and has a- >>RISC Style Processor running at 26,6 Mhz clock speed. >>They claim a 2294 estamated ELO(USA), but i feel it's more closer to the 2100's! >> >>Any information about this product is greatly appreciated. >> >>Best Regards, >> Terry > > >This chess engine( as far I know was found) in at least three different >products. It's 32K program (WChess) was written by Dave Kittinger. It earned >it's "2294" UCSF rating in USCF rated games. Backed in 1994, WChess running on >a PC gained nortoriety in the "Harvard Cup" by beating 2 Grandmasters in the >same tournament - very unusual for its day. Wchess was also mass marketed under >the name Power Chess/Power Chess 98 - the GUI was poorly written and the program >faded quickly out of existence. > >Other products tha have the exact same engine and hardware: > >Novag Amber >Emerald Classic Plus > >They are/were all the same (cosmetically they may be different) and and that's >why all 3 products were able to advertise the same USCF 2294 rating. > >here's a brief bio of Dave Kittinger: > >http://www.rebel.nl/authors.htm > >Dave is uncommon as a chess programmer in that he actually is a master level >chess player. Wow, you have a lot of great information! I have a (probably dumb) question: I own PowerChess 98 and would like to use the "smarts" of it inside a different GUI (I own products with the Fritz GUI, the Chess Partner GUI, the Shredder Classic GUI, the Genius 5 GUI, the Chess Assistant GUI, and the ChessMaster 8k GUI). Is that possible?
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