Author: eric guttenberg
Date: 17:32:44 02/20/05
Some time ago I picked up a Fidelity Sensory Chess Challenger 8 from a second-hand store for 3 whole dollars. Actually, when I got it I didn't know which model it was as it came without a manual. But eventually I was able to identify it and I located a site from which I was able to purchase the manual. The machine works fine although it is of course a pushover for any reasonably good player. I suspect it is about 25 or more years old. So..a plain plastic machine, weak chess, very few options, a minimal opening book and yet I am fascinated by it. Maybe because of the fact that of all the chess computers I have, this is the only really old one... from an era when the fact that a machine could play a coherent game of chess seemed a miracle in itself. eric
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