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Fernando wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:10 am
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Fern

Seems harsh, I suggest that instead you challenge Xi Jinping to a game of chess

Techstination Interview: Robotic chess? #GoChess at CES from Particula : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYXmeHX-ISA

How bad does this auction look Amazed that someone would actually try to sell this Clearly this computer spent some serious time under water i especially like the condition of the manual https://www.ebay.com/itm/125913996432?hash=item1d510f1c90:g:8wIAAOSwlypkUAeA&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8JJbjr5EpF...

Maybe a laptop cooling pad would help https://www.techradar.com/news/best-laptop-cooling-pad

Lovely clean look, beautiful, congratulations!

I love these sorts of projects please keep us informed

Good job! Should keep me busy for a whilte...

Many moons ago, before VB ran on .NET, it was founded on BASIC which is generally a slow and interpreted language. VB.net was a big improvement because it moved VB towards the .NET virtual machine and byte code, which perform pretty well. C# is a more expressive language but as you know also runs on...

I've found that PCW magazine is now scanned and archived online (and I'm loving browsing it), lots of chess articles, here's one:

https://archive.org/details/PersonalCom ... 4/mode/2up

Engage all electromagnets, slide off stage left.

The audacity of the guy is quite astonishing.

Yes I really enjoyed this series and then watched it a second time with my daughter of 15, who also loved it. One criticism I have though is the portrayal of the orphanage as really bleak and the people running it in a somewhat poor light was unfair (IMO) and panders to stereotypes. Perhaps this is ...

Regium eat your heart out:

https://cellumation.com/

This would make an entertaining chess board but not too attractive I would say

Great stories. I only have one story to tell, and it's definitely not wonderful :-) but it is probably very representative. It was about 1980 and I was 16 and mad on chess and computers, but hadn't actually yet seen a computer. Xmas was coming and I asked for the new fangled CC7 which had totally ca...

Thanks for the feedback. But it is actually possible to beat it correct? Has anybody here beat it before? I just want to know if it is possible. According to http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/zircon.html this computer, at its top playing level, has an ELO strength rating of about 2100. This is arou...

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Steve

that is a great story!