Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 06:11:07 09/10/03
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On September 09, 2003 at 20:47:19, Mike Byrne wrote: >http://www.chessgenius.com/pc/ > >New features of version 7.1 >Improved graphics: >Better support for high resolution displays. >Addition piece sets. > >Author: Richard Lang, one of the great Chess Programmers from the early years. To the best of my knowledge he is still alive and kicking ;) >I currently have Chess Genius 3 installed on my Win2K machine thanks to this >link. > >webpage >http://www.gambitchess.com/progr.htm > >direct link >http://www.gambitchess.com/pub/cg3dos.zip > >Although I am registered use Chess Genius 3, my disk has gone bad a long time >ago. I believe Chess Genius 3 will still do reasonanbly well against many of >the top programs today on equal hardware at fast time controls. Whenver they >(whoever they is?) decide to start a chess programmers "Hall of Fame" , there >is no doubt that Richard Lang will be a select member. For what it's worth, CG3 works perfectly (full-screen) under XP. I agree with the third sentence (for getting the most out of minimal hardware his work is remarkable) but not the second; it falls quite a long way short according to my brief tests. The big problem, which is not Richard Lang's fault, is lack of PGN support; CG3 was released before the standard existed. I am also amused by the restriction of drive letters from A: to F: in the save and load dialogs - ten years ago it seems nobody had more than four local partitions or network drives ;) Alastair
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