Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 20:58:26 04/07/05
Alexandra -Excalibur brand- dedicated unit is the last and best effort by the legendary Ron Nelson, father of this industry. He fathered it with his 1977 Chess Challenger 1 unit, a nasty bad player for sure BUT anyway the first mechanical contrivance capable of playing chess that you could buy in a store. This time he has truly got a program that perform at around 2000. With that it does not shake the rankings, but it is enough strong for trampling average players and, at the same time, enough strong to compel more experienced players - class A and expert level players- to play a careful game if they want to win; in fact you can beat it, but taking care in order not to fall, as usually happens, in that tactical mishaps -"shit, I lost a pawn, how it happened?"- that seems to wait a second of distraction due to excesive trust in your supposed a priori superiority. This time I was careful enough and so I got a pretty win after really, well, let me say it once, murderous and brilliant tactical attacks, including rock sacrifice and so on. When was the last time you won a Software with tactics? My last time was against Fritz 3 running in a 386.....10 years ago or so. Long life to strong but-not-that-strong dedicated units. Yes, I know; this is insignificant, but I am a happy man because I am capable of being happy with such insignificant things like these. Fernando
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