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Subject: Re: Colossus Chess - Still life in the old horse

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 14:52:22 10/21/05

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On October 21, 2005 at 07:43:29, bryan whitby wrote:

>The other week, I had contact with Martin Bryant author of Colossus Chess.
>Martin doesn’t live too far away from me so it was good to hear that he hasn’t
>abandoned chess altogether.
>He still programs in his very limited spare time and has actually got a Pocket
>PC GUI about 80% finished plus he’s working on a UCI chess engine at the moment.

Would be great to have a ColossusChess for the Pocket PC. It will probably
always remain the program I have beaten most often in my life.  Think I have
beaten it at least 200 times as a 14/15 year old beginner back in 1986 on C64
before I attended a chess club.

Michael


>Martin has also returned to playing chess at his local chess club in Bury,
>Lancashire.
>It would be good to see a new version of Colossus again plus the added bonus of
>a possible Pocket PC version.
>Anyone interested in Colossus can find Martins web site at the following
>address.
>http://www.colossus.demon.co.uk/home.htm
>Do have a look at Martins pictorial guide to ‘What Programming is Really Like’
>Brilliant !!



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