Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 15:50:20 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 08:37:17, Mike S. wrote: >On May 30, 2002 at 02:49:20, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>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. (...) > >>Other products tha have the exact same engine and hardware: >> >>Novag Amber >>Emerald Classic Plus > >I'm not 100% sure, but I think the Wchess-type program for chess computers was >introduced with NOVAG Sapphire (1994) for the first time. Ruby and Emerald were >in the previous product generation of 1993 - but already had the "risc style" >CPU, accordring to Kurt Kispert's infos: > >http://216.122.37.159/brettschachcomputer/novag3.htm > >Regards, >M.Scheidl sorry for the post with nothing new - my finger got itchy ;>) the key operative word in "Emerald Classic Plus" is the "Plus" -- the ""Emerald Classic Plus" did get the Wcess engine - the "Emerald Classic" no "Plus" did not get the WChess engine - it wasn't out yet - although it was still a "Kittinger" engine .
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