Author: Terry Giles
Date: 12:37:39 07/23/04
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Hi Steve, I've always enjoyed playing chess programs since I first played Artic computing's 'ZXChess' program for the Sinclair ZX80, which incidentally I regularly beat. I seem to remember playing a very weak chess program on a Commodore PET computer many many years ago, I can't remember it's name, which I soundly thrashed! I then moved up market with the excellent 'Cyrus' program by Richard Lang for the Sinclair Spectrum, which I had the edge on. Next was 'Superchess II' a toughy that one, I could still beat it fairly often though. Then came Martin Bryant's 'Colossus', probably the strongest chess program for the Spectrum, I rarely beat it at long time controls. I then moved onto dedicated machines with the Fidelity Excellence, what a gem that was, a 150 BCF program which I took the odd game off of, drawing quite often though. My next machine, which I still own was the Novag Sapphire, a monster, probably aroung 185-190 BCF, I just can't beat the bastard! Nowadays I find myself playing on my PC with Chessmaster 9000, I'm about on par with the personality named 'T.C.' at 1701 elo on my machine, I just love playing all the varied characters, with at least some chance of winning. To get back to the nub of the matter, yes I do play a lot of computer chess but nowadays most of it consists of 15 min games, maybe 30 mins sometimes, rarely any longer.
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