Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
Originally Posted by Janice & Bud
interesting as chess applications have been overwhelmingly powerful for 20 years. I guess the chess approach is based on pure massive computational power.
Hope you get to develop that app down the road. Lyric Lap is certainly a fine indication of your abilities.

Bud
20 years??
Anybody remember Radio Shack and Tandy?
I still have my battery operated Radio Shack 1650 Chess Fast Response Program (Cat. No. 60-2194) from the 1980s.
This thing has 7 levels, level zero is limited to an average response time of 1 second.
Level 7 is up to 1 hour.

Now the embarassing part. I was able to beat it frequently on level zero and infrequently on Levels 1 & 2. Beyond that it would kick my butt every time.
It's been a few years since I've played on it, I should dust it off and see how pitiful I am now blush

I also used several from that period but it was around 20 years ago when PC run apps could readily beat high level players. And like you those early ones kicked my butt at medium levels. smile And I took chess seriously ... or thought I did!

Bud

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