Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 19:08:11 01/11/06
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On January 11, 2006 at 22:02:48, Walter Faxon wrote: >On January 10, 2006 at 15:25:41, Thomas Mayer wrote: > >>Hi Fernando, >> >>On January 10, 2006 at 14:41:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>You deserve an Oscar. I though I was a freak, but compared with you I am an >>>enemy of chess computers and computer chess. >>>Fdo >> >>well, Dann forgot one point: You have to have at least one dedicated unit... >>else you are FAR away from being a CC freak. :) >> >>Besides: >> >>I have almost all ChessBase engines, I own EVERY Lokasoft-engine except Tiger >>2004. I have ChessAssistant 6 & 7, I have Chessmaster >>2000,3000,4000,5000,5500,6000,7000,8000 & 9000. Of course I know how to use The >>King in other GUIs. I have a lot of very old free- and shareware CDs about >>chess. I know quite well about Arena but still use WinBoard the most. I have >>SCID, Jose, Tom's Live Chess Viewer and a lot of other nice utilities for >>WinBoard and compatible engines. Of course, like Dann, I have almost all >>WinBoard compatible engines on my harddrive. Just with the newer once I could >>not keep fully up. >>Well, I have my own chess program, some might now. I have done some enhancements >>to Bruce's fine epd2wb. >>I have played in several on the board Computer Chess Tournaments, starting with >>IPCCC 2001. (IPCCC 2002,2003,2004,2005a) 1st CSVN Champs, WCCC 2003 Graz, 1st >>Lasker tourney in Berlin. I have pariticipated also in several CCTs... >> >>The following dedicated units I have since now: >> >>SciSys Chess Partner 2000 >>Mephisto Junior >>Mephisto Milano >>Saitek Centurion >>Novag Chess Champion MK1 >>Novag Chess Champion Super System III >>Mephisto Supermini >>Saitek Aria >>Saitek Teammate >>Mephisto Mondial >>Novag Chess Champion Pocket Chess >> >>nothing really impress among them so far... But it still looks nice when I >>arange them on a single table... :) >> >>Greets, Thomas > > >Some people collect old chess computers; others collect old computers. Once, >nostalgic for the days of the DEC PDP-10, I googled and found numerous fans. >One fellow had posted photos of his very large garage, chock-a-block full of old >PDP-10s! > >None of them were set up to run. It would cost thousands to keep one going >today; it's a lot cheaper to use a PC and an emulator, and it runs faster, too. >Still, he must have made some big money in computing. > >"Boys and their toys"... > >-W:)ter I should have mentioned you can also run a version of Greenblatt's famous chess program MacHack under an emulator. And there may be others around, e.g., Tech II. Both stronger than the Chess Challenger 1! -W
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