Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 06:48:25 11/27/05
For those of you who have older machines like Pentium II models running at 300 to 400 MHz, Fruit 2.2.1 and Toga II 1.1 provide fairly decent chess for very little money. I would say that these programs on a clunky old sub-Gigahertz desktop are probably much better than programs on 600 MHz PDAs. You can get secondhand PCs for less than $100.00 USD including a 17 inch monitor. Slap in a program like Fruit 2.2.1 or Toga II 1.1 and you have a bargain basement great game machine. Of course, it is best to have a nice GUI like Shredder 9 or Fritz 9 on such a system. The added chess database function is quite handy. You can get used Shredder 8.0 CDs for almost no money. If you really want a challenge then you can download Cake Checkers by Martin Fierz of Switzerland. This is another free program that plays at a master level. http://www.fierz.ch/checkers.htm Cake ver 1.05 plays very strong checkers on an old machine like PIIs and AMDK7 450 MHz. Enjoy your Cake and Fruit, Uncle Timbo
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