Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 07:16:33 06/20/02
I'm sure my experience is typical: Many years ago, I bought a "chess computer" which looked like a chess set. You actually moved pieces on it. Then I bought another, which was better. Several more went by. Then PC's became king. You hardly ever hear about those dedicated chess-playing machines anymore. Mine is in a closet gathering dust. But is that the way it will always be? After reading the UNISYS ES7000 webpages, I got to thinking. Why not make a computer dedicated to chess using that computer as a starting point? You could rip out all the server stuff and just leave whatever is absolutely essential for playing chess. May as well have 32, 64, or more processors. Why not? It's just money. Or, if having a rack-mounted chess-playing machine is a problem for someone, why not do the same thing for a PC? I guess the market is just not there for that either. But how about building your own?! [Might take a little effort.] Are dedicated chess-playing machines "history"? Bob D.
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