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From: chris@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Chess Program -Do you know a good one?
Keywords: Chess Program, Recommendation
Message-ID: <277@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 90 17:46:29 GMT
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In article <3513@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> halam2@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Haseen Alam) writes:
>In article <1874@murdu.oz> cjm@murdu.oz (Chris James Marone) writes:
>>	I'm looking for a chess program for the mac. I have a (very old)
>>version of Sargon and would like something more up to date -like one that
>>will play specific openings. Can anyone recommend something?  Ideally
>>it would run on a MacII and a Plus.
>
> Here is my opinion.  I used to have Sargon III (presented to my brother
> after I upgraded to my IIci), and my ex-roommate had Chessmaster 2000.  One
> day I was curious and had to try out something.  I borrowed my roomies SE
> and his CM 2000.  I plugged the two 1meg SE's with dual floppies right next 
> to each other and started up the two chess games.  On one Mac I would let
> the Mac make the first move, and on the other I would duplicate the move. 
> So basically CM2000 and SargonIII were playing with each other.
> [results deleted]

You say that whoever moves first wins, but I've found this not to be the
case always.  When Psion came out, it's major claim to fame was its three-d
board, and that it would beat Sargon III.  SO, using switcher (this was a few
years ago :-), I played them against each other and Psion won both games.
This was at the lowest level.

Has anyone ported GNU Chess 3.0 to the mac?


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