Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:11:27 04/14/98
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On April 13, 1998 at 22:45:20, Steven Schwartz wrote: >On April 13, 1998 at 22:09:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>hi Karsten: >>I remember that a "tournament" was organized in USA by the magazine >>Popular mechanics between Boris and Chess Challenger 10, won by this >>last one. I believe it were not more than two or three games. I can >>still remember the photo or the article where a chess master opposed >>both machines each other as he would do the arbiter of a box fight. >>Some remembrance deserves, also, the first voice chess challenger 10, a >>black machine that played the best chess ever created by Ron Nelson. >>Talking of all machines, do you have or remember micro-chess by Novag? >>It seem it was the cheapest and worst program created by Kittinger. >>fernando > >I recall beginning in business right around the time of the Voice Chess >Challenger (1978-1979). Our first shipment was delayed from Fidelity >three months after promised and arrived ONE WEEK before Christmas. We >rushed all the machines to our customers only to find that about 80% >of them were defective in one way or another (cosmetically and/or >electrically). What a great introduction to the world of computer >chess!!! It was the first of many, many reliability disasters in >the stand-alone computer chess field. I am sure that many readers >here have their own horror stories about reliability problems with >computer chess machines. >- Steve Hi Steve: I have been lucky all the time. No problems with CC7, no problems with sensoory 8, no with champion challenger, my first love, no one with micro-chess, no one with par Excellence -my second great love and still I love her-, no one with Constellation 3,6, non with MMIV and no one with the one I bought from ICD, my third love, Travel by Saitek, first version. So I deserve a kind of condecoration. Or maybe these machines were better examined if they were to be shipped outside the states or europe or whatever the place where they were produced. Else: my feeling is that nobody produces any more expensive, high voltage stand alone units anymore. Now they Seem to be toys, aren't they? fernando
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