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- Fernando
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Chessfriend
A friend here has sent me Chesfriend, a program that sometime in the Jurassic age I had in a 3,5 disk, but now lost or in any case unworkable as much none of my even old comps has a diskette reader.
This programs I have played two times with the result of two draws. It is tough in defense so even if you get some advantage, it find resources to keep half a point. OR it can be that I am somewhat tired to gather the last effort to materialize the advantage.
It hAS an interesting style, very pleasant to play it.
It is always fun to play programs that are pretty strong, BUT not at such stratospheric level as not to give us the shadow of a chance.
Fern
This programs I have played two times with the result of two draws. It is tough in defense so even if you get some advantage, it find resources to keep half a point. OR it can be that I am somewhat tired to gather the last effort to materialize the advantage.
It hAS an interesting style, very pleasant to play it.
It is always fun to play programs that are pretty strong, BUT not at such stratospheric level as not to give us the shadow of a chance.
Fern
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- spacious_mind
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- microhenri
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Hi microHenri,
Chessmaster 2000 is from D. Kittinger, 1986 and should score ~1900 "elo" on a PC/AT (80286@8Mhz). It belongs to Mychess & many Novag boards' family, including the famous Super Constellation (1984).
ChessFriend is from G. Horvath, 1993 and should score ~2000, 2100 "elo" on a 80486SX33 PC (commonly available in 93, to stay consistent with the birth time of Chess Friend). It belongs to Pandix family.
Tibono
Chessmaster 2000 is from D. Kittinger, 1986 and should score ~1900 "elo" on a PC/AT (80286@8Mhz). It belongs to Mychess & many Novag boards' family, including the famous Super Constellation (1984).
ChessFriend is from G. Horvath, 1993 and should score ~2000, 2100 "elo" on a 80486SX33 PC (commonly available in 93, to stay consistent with the birth time of Chess Friend). It belongs to Pandix family.
Tibono
- microhenri
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Ah Thanks Tibono. This is nice to know.Tibono2 wrote:Hi microHenri,
Chessmaster 2000 is from D. Kittinger, 1986 and should score ~1900 "elo" on a PC/AT (80286@8Mhz). It belongs to Mychess & many Novag boards' family, including the famous Super Constellation (1984).
ChessFriend is from G. Horvath, 1993 and should score ~2000, 2100 "elo" on a 80486SX33 PC (commonly available in 93, to stay consistent with the birth time of Chess Friend). It belongs to Pandix family.
Tibono
I was wondering if it is due to the faster hardware that ChessFriend has a higher rating or is it just a better chess program. So I did run ChessFriend (thanks Fern) and CM2000 (from myabandonware) each running in a Dosbox 0.74 emulator on my modern PC and playing against each other.
Chess Master 2000 did win two times out of two. This shows the superiority of the older engine (in this match ).
By the way, I like both games…
Henri
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ChessFriend (Pandix)
Is there a way to purchase this program, or otherwise download it?
Re: ChessFriend (Pandix)
+ 1 THANKSnathanhoover wrote:Is there a way to purchase this program, or otherwise download it?
Hi,
ChessFriend is almost a version of Pandix WCCC 1992 (Madrid)
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Pandix
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/WCCC+1992
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/nlK7784y/file.html
ChessFriend is almost a version of Pandix WCCC 1992 (Madrid)
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Pandix
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/WCCC+1992
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/nlK7784y/file.html