Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 15:33:06 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 11:45:31, Roy Eassa wrote: >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! Probably 2125-2150 >>>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 Also Novag Turquoise has the same program and H8 RICS-Style processor, which I owned and matched several times against Chess Tiger 14.9 on Prism 54 Mhz, I would say that these Novag Computers are probably rated 2125-2150. Pichard. >>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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