Author: James T. Walker
Date: 10:17:31 06/01/02
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On June 01, 2002 at 12:49:27, Don Prohaska wrote: >I dug around and found some of my old Boris manuals. I found some modules but >not the machines themselves. It has been a long time. The last two I can find >is Boris 2.5 which was made by Applied Concepts of Garland, Texas. Then they >came out with the Morphy Edition master chess, which was just an updated Boris. >It took modules. I have two. The Morphy, and the Gruenfeld Module. You pull out >the Boris or Morphy module and plug in the Gruefeld. When the module reaches >the end of its tree you get a notice to put in your middle game module and so on >until you reach the notice for the end game module. If you don't have the >modules, then the computer continues with either the Morphy or Boris. Boris 2.5 >was the first of what Applied Concepts called Modular Game System. I think the >Morphy was considered the middle game module. Starting with the "2.5" version that was actually Sargon 2.5. The Great Game Machine it was later called was upgraded with the Morphy module which was a middle game module. The Gruenfeld module was the opening book module. Later came the Capablanca module which was intended for the endgame phase. I still have all three and they still work. I also have the "Borecheck" module which plays a fair game of checkers for a 6502 running at 2 Mhz. I once gave the Capablanca module a "mate in 8" to solve and it took 17 days but finally came up with the answer. Jim
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