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I think if you go back and read all of Nelson's comments, he explained that for Alexandra a lower quality chip was used to the H8, which resulted due to not enough ROM space the removal of the Attack Tables as well as the ability to Ponder to make it all fit. If you read all of my previous post you...

I cannot avoid the knowledge that Ron is a human being after all, so prone to maximize his pros and diminish his cons. As you intimate, it is a natural thing that most of us do - probably with very little thought. Every time someone writes their own resume - formal or in a defacto context - they ar...

I forgot to add one thing (and no, I am honestly not trying to open a can of worms or to aggravate anyone here - honestly, I am not, particularly hardcore die-hard Nelson fans). As I have said many times before (and this is borne out on rating lists), the later Nelson machines suffered a considerabl...

Personally I would prefer Ron Nelson solo as programmer, as we don't know if Larry Kaufman has done any work besides consulting. I tend to agree. Without knowing precisely what contributions were made and their nature, it is arguably more inaccurate to credit additional authors than it is to simply...

Hi Bryan, I checked and nothing new is there since a few weeks ago. I've just deleted all of my old messages right now - in all boxes - just in case there was some system overload (though I was nowhere near the 100% limit in any box). Do you mind re-sending it please? Thank you. If I have nothing in...

larryadler wrote:Close. But no.

I can only think then that it is a Schneider - the model of which I do not know. I am out of ideas and first hand knowledge here.

My guess would be the CXG Super Crown (in black).

You teaser you. In all seriousness, I am happy for you to forward them my details. Improvement along with LED lights would be: - continuous LCD backlight option - continuous power-up option - better power management when performing multiple take-backs to replay game (LCD backlight intermittently die...

Ok, this being the internet and all. And there being no emoticons in your post. I have to ask. Is this a joke? Or are you being serious?

Yes, it is by now a well-known characteristic. Combine its style of play (predominantly an introverted and defensively positional one) with an overly pessimistic contempt factor and three-fold draws are as common with this machine as the Mephisto Europa from the mid 1980s.

Amazing how so much incorrect information is on the net these days i wonder what quality control process is in place to post and edit the Wiki? i mean can just anyone post whatever they want there and then its taken as the gospel? I think one reason why there is misinformation running around regard...

The Hitachi H8 was being phased out for masked chip production, but the OTP was still available at a premium but had to be individually programmed. So I made a huge effort and translated my H8 chess engine to the Sunplus later General Plus SPLB or GPLB series with 6502 core and LCD dot matrix drive...

This auction looks a little suspect to me. Why would the Saitek factory tape over a self-closing battery compartment like this? Especially with tape that looks suspiciously like what I buy from the post office to seal boxes with :o To me it looks more like the compartment is broken and the tape was ...

Nick, This thread is discussion about the Millenium Genius and I was responding to the two specific comments that you made and that I was quoting above. I was not specifically responding to any other comments you made. The first comment you made being that increasing hash table size can never produc...

I still think additional Hash would help it, how can it possibly hurt it. I mean there are absolutely no scenarios under which it could be worse Nick, You may choose to dispute the theories regarding increasing hash sizes, but below is empirical proof of reduced performance as the hash size increas...