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That's good! Don't underestimate this. Better you play your Monte Carlo yourself than watching the moves of two computers for hours. If you do that at least once a week you'll soon get stronger.

Funny positions. I've just enjoyed the latter two on my Atlanta. Thanks.

An unusual but interesting idea what time control were you using? i guess white is only allowed to schuffle the N unless in Check? what happens if Black captures the N do i shuffle the other N? i tried this with the "older" Novag Dynmaic "S" at 1 Min./Avg. The position is after ...

Many years ago I read in a book on chess computers the author's proposal how you can test in a simple way the degree of activity your chess computer has. He proposed to move only one piece to and fro as long as possible yet let the computer play normally. For instance, if you are White: 1. Nf3 d5 2....

But I will never sell,never!For if I sell,I will probably never be able to get another one.Collectors rarely sell them,they keep them.Even if offered $10,000 for both,I would say NO!!!! I'm 60 years old and need to cherish a few things in life.I have my pensions coming in a few years and will live ...

... Which one single dedicated chess computer from the past ..would you like to have upgraded to todays hardware? ... I'm Going To Disney World Regards Steve If a company would create a chess computer with the program of the Atlanta+end game knowledge of the Berlin Pro+beautiful case of the Diamond...

A board computer, as it would pleasure me, should have the following features:

- be as strong as the Atlanta
- be of the size and the design of the Atlanta
- must not cost more than the Atlanta

(hehe)
... and since I have an Atlanta already, I don't need another one. Clever, what?

How to  improve chess in the media... My proposals: 1) Get the interest of the wives of rich men and you will have chess in the yellow press. :wink: Yet I'm afraid that will never happen. I think this one of the few things that are really impossible. Wives of rich men want to display themselves and...

As far as I understood your posting, you seem 1) to have some problems in adjusting the playing strenghts of your "President" and "Präsident", apparently two computers of the same make, and 2) you wonder why the two computers do not play equally in same positions. Question Number...

Oh, I'm sorry, I made a mistake. After 27. Be4! the black queen can't of course flee safely to b1 any longer. So, only a6 is left as asylum.

I'm a bit curious about how Mr. Kamsky is going to play. After all, he is a former prodigy, but now a business economist or something similar and has a hundred elo-points less than his opponent, Mr. Nakamura. We will see.

[fen]3k4/R5p1/3P1p2/3K4/1P2P2p/8/4r3/8 w - - 0 41[/fen] Best Move 41. e5!! No Emulaters Please...Regards, Terry :wink: Old thread but still nice position! Under tournament conditions (3:00 minutes per move) the Mephisto Atlanta recommends 41. e5, too, after 3:03 minutes and 10_21 ply. The evaluatio...

The losing error came later: [fen]8/8/8/8/6R1/K1p5/3kr3/8 w - - 2 65[/fen] 65. Rg1 is forced, but Star Diamond played 65. Rd4+ losing. Did any of the old computer chess journals do rook and pawn ending tests on the best computers? The Mephisto Atlanta is known to be not as good at rook endings as t...

Hi everyone, a few days ago I happened to read a test position for the Mephisto Atlanta, a chess computer, which seems to be well known at this forum. The position appeared in the game Ljubojevic-Karpov in 1988 during the Roquebrune rapid, possibly a blitz tournament, I don't know. The complete game...