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- Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:52 am
- Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
- Topic: list of our chess computers , let's share it
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Hi Steve, Thanks for all the info and links, and I have to say I'm boggled that there's still so much interest in dedicated computer chess games! Yep, I remember the Blitz dials, although I didn't recall that it had that auto-sensor technology. By the way, at one time we worked on a technology using...
- Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:55 am
- Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
- Topic: list of our chess computers , let's share it
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My last computer chess project was in 2001, and I haven't been following computer chess developments since then. I would expect that by now, since just about everyone has a powerful PC or iPhone or some other device which might run chess software, that any new dedicated machine would quickly become ...
- Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:46 pm
- Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
- Topic: list of our chess computers , let's share it
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Hmmm, ...The Mephisto shachakademie (also sold as Kasparov(Saitek) Chess Academy) had Franz Morsch's 16k or 32k chess engine, which Saitek bought the assembler source code for. I then took the code (which was commented very lightly and in Dutch) and modified the I/O and other features. We then added...
- Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:25 pm
- Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
- Topic: list of our chess computers , let's share it
- Replies: 119
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Hi Steve, Thanks for the wiki link. I did so many games over the years that I haven't kept track of them all, but 20 years times a couple per year = a lot. Generally we only dealt with prototypes with exposed wires and connectors, and rarely (it seems) actually got a final product or even knew what ...
- Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:13 pm
- Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
- Topic: list of our chess computers , let's share it
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Re: list of our chess computers , let's share it
Hi Everyone, I realize I'm a few years late adding to the "collectors" discussion but I thought I'd add a bit more history... I'm Craig Barnes. I worked with Julio Kaplan for many years developing chess computers. He recruited me in 1980 as part of a small company called Teletape Productio...