Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 13:57:42 12/08/99
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On December 08, 1999 at 09:03:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi: >One of the most vivid chessic images I recall is a chilean FM playing in my home >one of the first M-Chess versions I ever had, one in a 5,1/4 disk. First, his >face of arrogant superiority; then, his expression of increasing concern; last, >his sad grinning as M-Chess kicked his ass. Yes, it was the very first serious, >strong software program available; only after a while came genius 1 and all the >rest. No doubt: M-Chess made history, Marty is a genius as a chess programmer -I >do not know if he is also in other fields, but probably he is- and anything he >can muster in the next years or months he can count with my automatic, instant >purchase. The only thing I never liked of his programs was his DOS condition and >some problems to run it at once if you haver became used to Windows. But, >looking at that with a greater perspective, that is nothing... >Fernando I wrote an rebuttal one time to "Chess Horizions" ( from MA,USA) I believe about how the then FM Jack Young didn't give computers a good name so I wrote a page or so of analysis using MChess 3.5, CG3, Gideon Pro , etc and he wrote lengthy thing saying that they made good moves and then he came down from MA, about 200 miles to my apartment and procedded to play all of them and of course he got beat by all of them. He liked MChess the most for its human, aggressive style. I then had a 486/DX50.
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