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Subject: Re: Dedicated Chess Computers - Fidelity

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 04:05:31 01/19/99

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On January 19, 1999 at 04:02:40, Charlie GOLD wrote:

>
>     Chess Challenger 10 came out in 1979 and was a golden plastic board with
>wood border and wood pieces. It was still key-in. It had all the features of the
>CC7 plus depth search, halt (force move), select opening book (of which there
>are 40). ROM;12K, RAM:1K, Mhz:1. It only used mains.
>     Chess Challenger Voice also came out in 1979 and is the same as the CC10 in
>all respects except it TALKS - the first on the market!
>     Chess Challenger Sensory 8 introduced in 1980 was an all plastic machine
>with press sensory squares...the FIRST. Each square has a Light Emitting Diode.
>It had all the features of the CC7 plus one more level. It operated on mains and
>batteries. ROM:4K; RAM:32byte: Mhz:1
>>>>>>>>
The "Voice Challenger" was stronger than the "CC10".  I played many games one
against the other and the Voice Challenger won about 75%.  Neither could compete
with Sargon 2.5 which came out about the time the Voice Challenger did maybe a
little later.  I got my Sargon 2.5 around Christmas time in 1979.  I later
updated to the Great Game Machine with the Gruenfeld,Morphy,Capablanca modules.
I still have them.  It also accepted Borcheck, a checker program which I thought
played pretty good for a 2 Mhz 6502 chip.
Jim Walker



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