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Subject: Re: More on Boris

Author: William Kerr

Date: 16:47:55 06/01/02

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On June 01, 2002 at 13:17:31, James T. Walker wrote:

>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

I also have the same hardware that you just described including Borcheck.
However my Morphy module does not work. Oh well.



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