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Subject: Re: OLD CHESS COMPUTERS

Author: Mike S.

Date: 23:02:19 03/03/03

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On March 03, 2003 at 23:10:26, Thomas McBurney wrote:

>>>(...)

>Is there anywhere on the internet where information can be found about all these
>different chess computers.  I'm particularly interested in technical
>specifications, who programmed it and anything else that might be interesting.

If you don't mind the language (or want to use babelfish), then I can recommend
this website:

http://216.122.37.159/brettschachcomputer/

By Kurt Kispert. He really is an expert and collector of chess computers, with
many infos on the site, inkl. links to other collector's websites. He also runs
a specific chess computers message board:

http://f19322.siteboard.de/

I have a few of these computers too, but not very old or rare ones. I think the
"rarest" is a CXG Super Enterprise of the late eighties, with a program by Kaare
Danielsen. Great Design - but only ~1500...1600 Elos.

I display some chess computer games on my website:

http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/replay/oldies2.htm

The comps ran at 40/2h. Opponents were PC programs (oldies too), running at 60
moves in 20 minutes on a P2/333 MHz, which is roughly similar to 40/2h on a 486.

Oldies-Turnier II, Wien 2001:

                         -----------------  Novag Sapphire        4.0/6
                         |  --------------  Mephisto risc 1 MB    3.5/6
                         |  |  -----------  Mephisto Lyon 16Bit   3.0/6
                         |  |  |  --------  CXG Super Enterprise  0.0/6
                         |  |  |  |  -----  SciSys Turbo 16K      0.0/6
                         |  |  |  |  |  --  CXG Sphinx Dominator  0.0/6
                         |  |  |  |  |  |
 1 Socrates 3.0          1  1  1  1  1  1  6.0/6
 2 Sargon V              0  0  1  1  1  1  4.0/6
 3 Kallisto 97 Aegon     0  1  0  1  1  1  4.0/6
 4 Chessmaster 3000      1  0  0  1  1  1  4.0/6
 5 Kasparov's Gambit     0  0  1  1  1  1  4.0/6
 6 LChess 3.0            0  ½  0  1  1  1  3.5/6

Tournament Report (in german language):
http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/oldies2/oldies2a.htm

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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