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Subject: Re: Chessmaster Fidelity 2100

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 11:07:21 06/10/04

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On June 10, 2004 at 10:44:45, Daniel Jackson wrote:

>On June 10, 2004 at 10:13:00, Alain ZANCHETTA wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>somebody told me that the Chessmaster 2100 was written by the Spracklen . I have
>>been unable to find any confirmation on this on the web and old chessmaster were
>>written afaik by D. Kittinger.
>>But on the other hand, this is the only program referred to as "Chessmaster
>>FIDELITY 2100", others being simply "Chessmaster 2000".Does anybody have some
>>information about this ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Alain
>
>Chessmaster 2100 was sold in 1988-89 and the engine was written by Dan
>Spracklen. The advertising on the package was misleading as it said this program
>was by the author of the program which obtained a 2325 Certified Master Rating.


The advertising is correct in that the Spracklens (Dan & Kathy) did write the
program contained in the Mach3 68000 and the Mach4 68020.  The Mach 4 68020 did
achieve a rating of 2325 USCF in a tournament at the same time the Mach 3
received the 2265 rating.
Jim


>
>CM2K and CM3K were by Dave Kittinger, the rest were by Johan de Koning.
>
>Daniel



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