Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 18:31:24 11/27/05
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Terry, I too enjoy WZebra Othello and beat at the lower levels on my AMD 1500 MHz machine. TJ PS The latest Checkerboard 1.63 by Martin Fierz is awesome. It has six man tablebases and a 93,000 move opening book plus hundreds of classic checkers games. You will enjoy it. http://www.fierz.ch/checkers.htm The ten man tablebases are available but they are 150,000,000,000 bytes in length...a bit much even for DVDs and most hard drives. On November 27, 2005 at 18:17:45, Terry Giles wrote: >On November 27, 2005 at 09:48:25, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>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 > > >Hi Uncle Timbo, > >Yes I'm a great classical boardgame fan and I also have Gnu Backgammon and >JellyFish 3.0 Backgammon as well as the excellent WZebra Othello program. All >very good, strong and free. > >Enjoy your Gnu, Jellyfish and Zebra, with your Cake and Fruit. > >Terry - I think I've got windypops!
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