This is such a great thread. I do remember Sargon on my C64. I remember beating it once. It was such a huge deal for me. Next I recall battlechess (I think on the C64). I don't recall much about it other than it was novel but I don't think the animations varied so I grew wary of it. Then there was a dos program called Edchess. I only ever beat it once. I had a non-chess playing friend who claimed he could beat it all the time and would tease me relentlessly. Finally I do remember the chessmaster series and yes Josh Waitzkin was a part of one of them. I don't recall which. ... oh and then there was a Kasparov one ... but I don't remember what it was called.
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CavalryFC wrote:
This is such a great thread. I do remember Sargon on my C64...
I had a Commodore64 computer, too! And Sargon.
Once I bought a desktop, no more chess computers for me. Why buy something that can only play one kind of game?
Right now I love my iPadAir. Just the right size and I can still carry it in my purse. Perfect constant companion!
Oct 13, 2018
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LadyMisil wrote:
CavalryFC wrote:
This is such a great thread. I do remember Sargon on my C64...
I had a Commodore64 computer, too! And Sargon.
Once I bought a desktop, no more chess computers for me. Why buy something that can only play one kind of game?
Right now I love my iPadAir. Just the right size and I can still carry it in my purse. Perfect constant companion!
I actually started with a Vic 20. LOL. Anyways, I remember thinking that radio shack game would have been cool for travel and such. I was from a small town in a remote part of Canada. So there was a lot of travel to get to sporting events etc. My parents just wouldn't pony up for exactly that ... an expensive board game that ... just plays one game!!
Oct 13, 2018
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This is K-Chess. I was an early Windows shareware program. I remember how it favored its Knights and played them very cleverly.
Head over to https://archive.org/, do a search for "chess", then filter it for software, and you'll be in old chess software heaven. Some of them you can even play directly in your browser, because it uses an emaulator to run behind the scenes. Some of them you'll have to download and then figure out yourself.
TracySMiller wrote:
Head over to https://archive.org/, ... and you'll be in old chess software heaven.
Nice to hear that the old software didn’t go to hell ... they deserved a good afterlife ...
Oct 13, 2018
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TracySMiller wrote:
TracySMiller wrote: Head over to https://archive.org/, do a search for "chess", then filter it for software, and you'll be in old chess software heaven. Some of them you can even play directly in your browser, because it uses an emaulator to run behind the scenes. Some of them you'll have to download and then figure out
yourself.
Thanks for the tip. I remember playing against SARGON on an Apple ll. mychess on our Kaypro ll,
and ChessMaster 2000 (an a couple of upgrades) on various PC's under MS-DOS and then Windows.
I remember when the notion og a computer beating a grandmaster was a dream. What a long strange trip it's been.
Head over to https://archive.org/, do a search for "chess", then filter it for software, and you'll be in old chess software heaven. Some of them you can even play directly in your browser, because it uses an emaulator to run behind the scenes. Some of them you'll have to download and then figure out yourself.
You have a fine mind. I lost mine somewhere along the way.
Perhaps it was on The Road To Singapore!
But I was born here. Maybe I was born without one as well. ..