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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (The Loch Ness Dog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: What?  NO PD CHESS FOR MAC???
Keywords: chess
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.080325.26897@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 90 08:03:25 GMT
References: <4393@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: kreme@isis.UUCP (The Loch Ness Dog)
Organization: Pseudo-Dragon Protection League
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In article <4393@lanl.gov> tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish) writes:
>
>  Title says it all...After almost 2 weeks of waiting, no one has
>responded to my post of where to find a decent (or any) PD Chess
>program for the mac.  Is anyone holding back info, thinking 'Oh
>he'll get tons of responses, doesn't need one more'....
>
>Maybe it's time to port one from the (shudder) IBM or Amiga worlds.

I think aprt of the reason that there are no good PD chess games for
the Mac is that there is no point.  For $30 you can buy Sargon IV, which
will kick the tail of just about anything I have ever seen.  Set it on
a leisurly 5 minute move and it will challange all but the best players.

With such a good chess player available so cheap, why spend the time
programming an inferior free one?


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