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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