Author: m.d.hurd
Date: 04:10:09 12/28/03
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The following appeared Chess 45 July 1980 Video Chess is a new command module for Texas Instruments' home computer. Demonstrated by David Levy, who has helped to develop the program, it took on six strong players simultaneously in London recently. Our picture shows five (left to right, John Roycroft, editor of End Game; grand master Michael Stean, chess correspondent of The Observer; Michael Basman, editor of Audio Chess; David Levy; Lance Corporal Hopkins of the Army Chess Association Magazine and Bernard Cafferty of the Birmingham Evening Mail). The games were played in a light-hearted atmosphere at speed, the machine losing all six. Wine flowed. Mike Stean mated it in 13 moves, winning a bottle of champagne. Video Chess offers 3 levels of skill (it was functioning at the weakest), and a choice of 3 playing styles at each level: normal, aggressive or passive. It can go back to enable you to check up and correct mistakes, an action-replay facility to enable you to replay from a past position and a "freeze" mechanism. It can solve problems. Complete with a 14" colour TV monitor usable as an ordinary TV set, the computer costs from £990 including VAT. The Video Chess module costs £44-95. Could this be what you thinking of ? Regards Mike
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