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+1 in the USA My approach is similar to BrianM - I have about 30 dedicated machines - but the point isn't so much 'collecting' as it is playing. I sought computers from as many programmers as possible (Schroeder, Kittinger, Lang, Morsch, Nelson, Barnes, Rathsman, Kaplan, Spracklen, de Koning), most ...

Just like SedarPL:

1. Hiarcs
2. The Baron
3. The King
4. Arminius
5. Spartacus
6. Nemeton
7. Embla

I'll differ on tiebreak, though: 77

There is an extremely funny tale by Woody Allen about a mail game between two cantankerous old farts....get it... BTW, CC7 is too strong. Maybe CC1 should do the trick.... Found the Woody Allen story. :D There is currently a Tryom CC-700 on ebay. Surely, on a good day, on its weakest level, with it...

I do the same, but I take off one of its knights to get an even game... I laughed so hard when I read this, and also Tibono's, reply. Today I tried one better, taking off all the pieces, and playing blindfold. I won CC7's queen early, but blundered my own queen back back a dozen moves later. Fortun...

This is why I keep a CC7 around. To prove to myself, when needed, that I haven't completely forgotten how to move the pieces.

...and to watch the mesmerizing red LEDS flash while CC7 is thinking, of course.

According to the criteria at schach-computer.info, I have a Super Mondial I Model B. I ran it, and my Monte Carlo, through the game 1 test you suggested. Time control level C3, 30 seconds per move. The moves were identical for both machines, as follows: START TEST 4. ... Nc6 7.80 5.d4 30.00 5. ... N...

Nick, As mentioned in your TASC B/V thread, I just picked up a Monte Carlo. What really surprised me about this machine is how BEAUTIFUL it is. Appears that the seller had never/rarely played it. My (well-used) Exclusive and Munchen boards are nice, but hadn't prepared me for this. I bought the mach...

Two Different Issues Regards Understood - (functionally) dedicated vs (in the eyes of the beholder) collectible. An issue that influences how I feel about a dedicated chess computer is whether the chess program runs on top of a generic operating system, e.g picochess engines running on top of Raspb...

Nick, What I immediately wondered as I browsed your lists: which machines, from each manufacturer, do you most enjoy playing against? I know its a subjective question. I tried searching the archives a bit, no luck, although surely the topic has been discussed before. For people like me, who "co...

reminds me of a debate i had with a guy Yesterday I ordered a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a small $10 board that I will use to run picochess off of a microSD card. I, personally, have no interest in ever connecting the board to a monitor or keyboard, so the machine will, in effect, be dedicated for me. St...

Chris W, the father of 2150, 2175 I have to credit Chess Champion 2175 for Mac for drawing me back into tournament chess in the mid 1990s after a 15 year layoff. I picked up a copy while living in Norwich, England, had so much fun playing it that I eventually joined a club, and ended up playing a L...

Having spent a few hours today discussing big data with some colleagues - plant genotypes and phenotypes in our case - it is nice to see a big data framework applied to chess, too!

this guy is selling the recorded games he played with his Mephisto Montreux Vs. other computers...

Speechless. Just speechless.

Walter

Back in my school days I used to get "high" (well no, net really) on the smell of those plastic standard tournament sets made in China. You know, the ones everyone has to use in open tournaments when they are not strong enough to play on a DGT. Seriously, there is nothing better than open...

The first chess computer I ever played was a chess challenger 10. An older friend had one; rather easy to beat, though. That was 1979, I was 14. The first chess computer I ever bought was a Mephisto Super Mondial, in 1986, while traveling in the Netherlands. Saw it in a shop window - I'd never seen ...