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Although I did visit the last remaining I.C.D. retail store not too long, I haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting the new owner, Quentin. When Steven Schwartz founded the business way back in 1978 (the dinosaur days), it was the only shop if its kind in the area selling all major brands of schachc...

Ah, Schwartz! A very nice guy. I was in his shop, once, then he invited me and my daughter to dinner and it was there, during the second course, we invented the thinker forum . I hope he is fine enjoying his retirement. I bough to him, along the year,s lot of things, but just software, a board, thi...

The horror of seeing the death of chess comps I have had just a few times, no more....I had two Fidelity 9 comps, both failed, both I sent to an electronic repair expert and from both I never heard a thing after that, looks like the guy died and that was all. There is also a hand held unit, now I r...

Now I, as you, have lot oft machines and hundreds of engines, but I miss those times where you was poor, have just one thing to play and extremely weak and yet you got lot more pleasure that we get now. Preparing myself for another game with Chesster regards Frn My sentiments exactly. I didn’t have...

Great historical schachcomputer gift giving anecdote, Fern! An interesting synchronicity is that my very first schachcomputer, also a Fidelity CC7, came through largess also. It all started back in 1977, when a longtime childhood friend from a very wealthy family was leaving. We had gone to school t...

A couple of years later, a modified version of this schachcomputer was used in Steve Martin’s “The Lonely Guy” . Credits to “The Mad Modder” Regards, John lol well the video was 47 sec... just about how long the computer lasted before breaking Short Life Span Regards Steve Ditto for the Excalibur M...

The Novag Robot Adversary's "Emotions" feature is unique to the Robot and never seen again (or should i say ..heard again) in any other chess computer when the computer thinks its wining or losing it emits a serious of shrieks and whistles and waves and sweeps its arm across the board Emo...

As I cannot imagine a life without trees, flowers, my dogs and cats, etc, I would not go to the bunker but instead wait the burst in my living room surrounded by my pets and with a bottle or red wine in hand. No chess but music, probably symphony "The hen" by my friend Haydn. No intereste...

Due to a tragic computer/electronics malfunction, an airburst nuclear missile barrage is imminent. Being one of the lucky few, you fortunately created a completely self-contained deep underground shelter with enough safe air, food, water, etc. to last for the rest of your natural life. You’ve packed...

Hi Fabrice Try this link rather than the Granit S one - http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fidelity_sensory_se12.html It includes details of all the various Sensory 12 models taken from publications of the day, Hein's website, my own examples etc. All the best Mike Nice photos and technical data. ...

I play always Ruy Lopez, exchange variation, to get rid of that nuisance which is the king bishop playing too many moves and finally cornered and most un-useful most of the time. Then my pawn chain is kept most of the time in white squares and so the black queen bishop has no much action. And then ...

After playing millions and millions of games... AZ has decided that will NEVER open with 1.e4 it considers its winning chances significantly less then opening with 1.d4 or 1.Nf3 ..it opens with 1.d4 about 70% of the time and 1.Nf3 30% for some reason I find this amusing as it could be construed as ...

The last time I had that fabulous amount of money was two weeks ago and I used to get a hot meal for me and my deprived family. Starving regards Fern Greetings Fern: Here are a couple more worth fasting for: https://www.amazon.com/Beat-Chess-Computer-Batsford-Library/dp/080502316X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?...

Personally i wouldn't worry about it too much my matches are always 1 min/Avg as long as you stay at the board for the entire game then the fact that each side will get an extra second or two to ponder really makes no difference if on the other hand you make a move for one computer ...then go and m...

Back in 2008 i sponsored a "Draw odds" match where GM Joel Benjamin took on Rybka(when it was the strongest PC engine) Benjamin was paid an "appearance" fee...win,loss or draw Benjamin had white in every game and if he drew it counted as a win Rybka could only score pts if it wo...