Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:15:44 01/16/03
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On January 16, 2003 at 06:45:28, Thomas McBurney wrote:
Probably the two oldest would be 'Chess' for the Atari 2600, and Sargon II for
my Apple ][.
Albert
>I'm just interested in hearing about what other people here have in the way of
>pre historic chess computers? Also, do you have any photos, screen shots or
>games that you can show me? The oldest I have is Intellivision chess from
>1981. It's not a strong chess player but was probably considered fairly good
>back in those days. One thing it lacks is an opening book! It has to think
>before making it's first move.
>
>Here are two screen shots from Intellivision chess...
>http://www.zeta.org.au/~tommy/pics/intellivision_chess01.jpg
>http://www.zeta.org.au/~tommy/pics/intellivision_chess02.jpg
>
>And here is what Fritz 4 did to it today...
>
>[Event "Arse ripping contest"]
>[Site "Sydney"]
>[Date "2003.01.16"]
>[Round "1"]
>[White "Intellivision"]
>[Black "Fritz 4 Pentium III 833"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qd2 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Bc4 Bb4 7. f3 d5 8.
>exd5 exd5 9. Qe3+ Be6 10. Bb5 d4 11. Bxc6+ bxc6 12. Qf4 Ba5 13. b4 Bxb4 14.
>Ne2 O-O 15. Bd2 dxc3 16. Nxc3 Qe7 17. O-O Qc5+ 18. Be3 Qxc3 19. Rfd1 Nd5
>20. Qg5 Nxe3 21. Re1 Nxc2 22. Rac1 Qd4+ 23. Kf1 Bc4+ 24. Re2 Rae8 25. Rxc2
>Qd1+ 26. Kf2 Be1+ 27. Kg1 Bg3+ 28. Re1 Rxe1#
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