Author: John Wentworth
Date: 15:28:00 06/30/99
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On June 30, 1999 at 13:47:52, Alan Grotier wrote: >In 1984 I purchased the Mephisto Mondial XL rated at around 1970 Fide. >It has a Motorola 68000 16bit processor at 12MZ and one of the best pressure >sensitive boards I have seen.The features are rather limited - one playing >style, no tournament time controls, fixed selective search etc. >The play is rather quiet and positional.It does have tactical ability but >will not go out of it's way to provoke tactical situations and can be prone to >sacrifices on the King side.But it does have agood end game. >Dispite it's age I find it very strong and cannot boast many wins at my favorite >level game/30". > >In 1993 I purchased the Mephisto Vancouver with the exclusive wooden board >(Mephisto Genius1 was based on this program)rated at around 2100 Fide. >It has the same processor as the Mondial XL.It is pure luxury to play and >abounds with features and playing levels.Selectivity can be varied from >0 to 12, it has three playing styles-solid,active and risky and a choice >of six different opening books. >I have not been able to win one game against it. > >Recently I purchased Fritz 5.32 primarily for game analysis. >I did play some games against Fritz but this was akin to hunting bear >with a potato peeler;your going to get mauled. > >So I think I will stick to playing my dinosaur chess machines.There is still >lots of life in them and plenty to learn from them. > >When I really get fed-up with losing I drag out the Fidelity Chess Challenger7 >from it's torn and used box and teach it a lesson. > >An inveterate chess enthusiast. I agree with you all the way on this one. I think people keep buying for the sake of having something "NEW" and not because they "NEED" it. If I can get destroyed by a 2200 machine, I'am probably not going to learn to much by being destroyed by a 2500+ program, since I obviously still have much to learn from the 2200 machine.
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