Author: Lin Harper
Date: 04:16:03 01/19/99
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On January 19, 1999 at 07:05:31, James T. Walker wrote: >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 >>>>>>>>>I took up an interest in chess computers around the same time, in fact it was computers that got me interested in club chess. I haven't got a kind word for "Fidelity" though, they were very unreliable. I recommend Novag instead, they were stronger for the price, and more reliable. >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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