Author: Steve B
Date: 09:30:17 03/01/05
i think it might be of interest to all Members to perhaps share their very first experience with a chess playing machine or even a PC program after all.. all members here started somewhere with their very first program or dedicated computer.. a point in time i think that many of us recall with a certain amount of nostalgia and fondness for me of course the beginning was way back in 1978 the first chess playing computer i owned was the JS&A Computer Chess Computer endorsed by the then World Champion Karpov it was a small unit,with no chess board attached you keyed in your move and the display showed the computers reply it sold for $100 the only other machine at the time was the Fidelity Chess Challenger but it was more expensive..i recall it sold for about $400,so i went for the cheaper machine i can recall exactly where i was and the time of day when i played my first game i was renting a house with 3 college buddies(we had just graduated) and it about 8pm in the evening i opened with D4 and after only 2 or 3 moves the computer was out of book i remember the computer making a quiet developing move ,moving the Q to D7 to clear the way to Castle Queen side i was simply amazed here i was sitting in my house,playing a game of chess with a machine no bigger then a small book and weighing less then 1 LB and all this for 100 bucks it soon became apparent that the program was weak but i was hooked for life i knew right then and there i would collect and play as many of them as i could possibly afford the next day i shelled out the money for the Chess Challenger still have both computers and they still work fine(and still after all of these years,play god awful chess) Best Steve
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