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From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:31:16 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <92364.122435RCE365@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, <RCE365@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
> In article <1992Dec29.055724.23632@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu
> (sven  hauptfeld) says:
> 
>>>>This is really idiotic. Do you think that government having jurisdiction
>>over
>>>>its people mean that those people are its property? And do you think that a S
>>U
>>>>citizen who kills somebody in another country would be immune of a trial by
>>a
>>>>US court?
> 
>>>YES! If the person killed is not an american, then he can't be tried in
>>>U.S. He can be tried in that foreign country, if he is caught there or if
>>>  he is convicted and that country has extradiction treaty with U.S.!!!
>>>( U.S. doesn't have Extradiction treaty with Yugo.)
> 
> 
>>I would really be surprised if the US works the way you say. I certainly know
>>that a Danish truck driver who causes an accident in which people get killed
>>on
>>a Yugoslav road CAN be tried in Denmark - I know of such a case, where Denmark
>>demanded extradiction but Yugoslavia refused (he would be a lot better off
>>under Danish law - but he would stand trial).
> 
> If in U.S. court's eye, the judicial system in the foreign countryis
> competent enough, then the U.S. law will not interfere with the that
> matter. That however doesn'tforbid anybody from filing a case.

Actually, the test is the resulting decision must be so contrary to the public
wheal so as to "shock the conscience." How far is that? There was a 1950's case
where a jew sued in America a former Nazi who confiscated his business under
the 'brownshirt laws'. The decision of the American court? 'We must respect the
laws of ther countries.'

There was a baby-selling case where it returned the child to its proper parents,
but all parties were in America at the time. If the property/child had still
been in whatever Asian hell-hole they baby was purchased in, oh well...


> 
> At this jucture I would like topoint out Bhopal gas tragedy case. The
> Indian government tried to file the case in US, as it is a known fact
> that the US courts give large comensations ( The figure they were talking
> was over a billion $.) However they presented the case on the ground that
> the indian judicial system hasn't been exposed to such cases. The Union
> carbide wanted the case to be tried in India for the same monetery reason
>  The US judge opined that the Indian courts arecompetent enough and so
> the case should be tried in INDIA and not US
> 
> (finally the victims got around 500 million $ as a comp.)
> 
> Abhay

Good points. Also note these were civil cases.

>>        Sven
>
From: CAPSA <capsa@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:05 PST
Subject: Re: US Championship FINAL CROSSTABLE
Nf-ID: #R:BzMCJ8.HqL@world.std.com:1819552435:cdp:1451600064:000:120
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!capsa    Dec 22 20:05:00 1992


Elliott, I wish to add a public thanks for your great services during the 
US Championship.

Fraternally,

Jerry Bibuld

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: dlittlej@csulb.edu (Darren Littlejohn)
Subject: Need to learn basics of Openings...
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:15:09 GMT

	Ok, I've been playing more and more chess latley, and it's
time to step up my level of play. If you have advice, books, etc. on
basics, especially openings, please do email me. I have CM 3000, and
a Kasparov 2250 to practise on.

Thanks!

dlittlej@csulb.edu


-- 
"The Harvests are plentiful, the laborers few" Jesus Christ

"what you're lookin' for, you're lookin' with!" Chuck C.

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: roberts@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Eric Roberts)
Subject: mchess pro vs gnuchess
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 05:50:24 GMT

I have two questions about gnuchess 4:
How well does it play in comparison to mchess pro?
What is its rating on a 386-25?

Any help would be appriciated.
From: linb@ucs.orst.edu (Benjamin Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: US Championship Results
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:32:48 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucs.orst.edu

In article <1992Dec21.214018.12512@u.washington.edu> monaghan@cac.washington.edu (Tracy Monaghan ) writes:
>US Championship
>Durango, Colorado
>2-19 December, 1992
>                        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
>1   Wolff,Patrick       x 0 = = = 0 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1   10.5   +8  -2  =5
>2   Gulko,Boris         1 x = = 0 = = 1 1 = 1 = = = 1 1   10     +6  -1  =8
>3   Sherzer,Alex        = = x = 0 = 1 0 = = 1 1 1 1 1 1   10     +7  -2  =6
>4   Seirawan,Yasser     = = = x 1 1 = 1 = = = 0 = = = 1   9      +4  -1  =10
>
>Any comment on the high number of draws by Seirawan?
>
>He would not have finished so high if the FS-II (only wins) rules were
>followed.
>
>Is his style ultra-conservative, playing for draws (6 of which were less
>than 20 moves)?
>

I think he is known for playing ultra-positional chess.  Didn't he once say
that he played positional chess better than Kasparov, but Kasparov was better
at tactics? 

>His openings (scillian as black; d4, c4 or Nf3 as white) didn't seem
>conservative to this fish, but how did they compare at least in diversity to
>the other players?

Sicilian?  I saw only the first few rounds, and he used the Caro-Kann.

That's too bad that Sherzer didn't win :-(

-benoni
  
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum)
Subject: Re: harvard square speed.
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:57:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.1528.9333@channel1>, "dale smoak" <dale.smoak@channel1.com> writes:
|> In article <1giuegINNhc@agate.berkeley.edu> Daniel Mytelka writes:
|> 
|> >That would be in 1983. I was visiting Boston, and played a game against a
|> >master who played blitz against all comers in Harvard Square for $1 a game,
|> >giving twice as much time to his opponent. I lost, but the next guy beat
|> >him. Turned out to be Short, pretty much an unknown at the time who had
|> >just won the British championship, and was in this country to play the
|> >US champion.
|> 
|> (I missed the original article from which this quote comes and have
|> "borrowed" it from elsewhere)
|> 
|> I saw this.  A man walked up to Murray Turnbull, the Harvard Square
|> master, with his "nephew" in tow, and said, here, why don't you play
|> him. 

  The "man" was Boston Globe Chess columnist Harold Dondis - a Boston
attorney and chess philanthropist. Another of the true gentlemen in chess.
He was hosting Short during his stay in Boston for Nigel's early 1985 match with
Lev Alburt. I know the year since I couldn't attend due to my trip to
Hawaii - in January of '85.  

|> So Murray gave his usual odds of three minutes to five, or maybe
|> it was two to five, and got wiped off the board.  Hmmm, he said, they set
|> up again, and again the nephew wiped him out.  Then the "uncle"
|> introduced Short.  Murray was thrilled, as it was the first time he'd ever
|> played a grandmaster (he's played one or two since, as Dzindzichashvili
|> has come through occasionally).

  Murray had played plenty of GMs in local tournaments, but perhaps it
was the first time a GM had sat down to play Murray at his Harvard Square
station.
 
|> The year cited above is wrong; it's too early.  I didn't live here until
|> 1984.  I remember that Short was nineteen and Lev Alburt was US
|> Champion.

True - it was January of '85.
 
|> Murray Turnbull is probably the most photographed non-politician in
|> Boston.  There's a story on him at least once a year in the papers.  He
|> played chess in the Square even before the Au Bon Pain, the outdoor
|> cafe, was built; and people know to always reserve the outermost chess
|> table for him.

  Of course, he's usually there all the time, so he can take the table for
himself! ;-)

|> 
|> Dale Smoak

-Ron Birnbaum
From: jacobson@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Eliot T. Jacobson )
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Boris Men
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:31:53 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens


Boris Men was the only non-titled player to compete in
this years U.S. Championship.  He got off to a great
start, 3-1 and tied for first after four rounds, but then
the big guys got his number, and he nose dived to 2-9
for the rest of the tourney.  I know Men because he is a
native of Ohio, like myself, and I have competed against
him directly in local tourneys.

The first time I saw him play was as an unrated in the
top section of the Ohio Chess Congress.  He gained draws
with Kudrin, and Rachels, and finished 5-1, state champion!
His first rating was around 2600, and has been close to that
ever since.

Men is a quiet man, in his 40's, with striking features that
give him a hawk like appearance.  He plays off beat openings,
Albin Counter-Gambit and the like, and as white he plays less
than the sharpest lines, looking for small advantages and 
those sure fire errors sub-masters make with regularity.  My
one game against him was the black side of a French Tarrasch,
where he demonstrated why black must not develop his King's
knight to f6 (the Bishop Pin).  It took me 3 months to figure
out that was the losing move!  (NM Charles Schulien pointed it out).

I have the highest respect for Men, and was rooting for him all
the way in the U.S. Championship.  Although 5-10 is a dismal score,
Men is sure to be a top player in U.S. chess for years to come.

-01
From: sol.steinberg@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Sol Steinberg) 
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Another Game?
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:45:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, (313)663-4173, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Reply-To: sol.steinberg@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Sol Steinberg) 

     If you want to play another and try not to throw away your queen,
     I'm game.
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: tewald@argo.acs.oakland.edu
Subject: Volga/Benko Gambit help
Reply-To: tewald@argo.acs.oakland.edu
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:25:26 GMT

My first submission/question:
I am white in the following:
1.d2-d4  g8-f6  2. c2-c4  c7-c5  3. d4-d5 b7-b5  4. b2-b3 ...
MCO12 identifies black's 3rd move with the Benko Gambit.  It gives three
possible responses:  4.c4xb5  4. g1-f3  4. a2-a4
I played as I did to support the c-pawn.  Accepting the gambit removes
support from the d-pawn; the other two MCO12 responses give up the c-pawn,
which will then cause the d-pawn to lose support.
Can someone explain the thinking here, please?  
Thanks.
tewald@argo.acs.oakland.edu   CIS:  TEWALD
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: juffi@ai.univie.ac.at (Johannes Fuernkranz)
Subject: Re: FISCHER-SPASSKY II BOOKS
Organization: Dept. Med.Cybernetics & Artif.Intelligence, Univ.Vienna, Austria, Europe
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:50:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.194652.26143@midway.uchicago.edu> schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <183dwwcp511@tweekco.uucp> 824-5054%wwiv@tweekco.uucp (Jay  
>Whitley #824 @5054) writes:
>> Can anyone add to this list of Fischer-Spassky II books available?
>>  
>>  - BOBBY FISCHER'S $5,000,000 COMEBACK MATCH by IM Nigel Davies
>> 
>>  - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP REMATCH by Shamkovich & Carier
>> 
>>  - Booklet of Annotated FSII Games by IM Jack Peters sold by LA Times
>>  
>>  Others?
>That's Shamkovich & Cartier. opening research by Eric Schiller. Color  
>commentary by Lou Hays. Lots of Photos. complete press confs.
>Well over 300 pages.
>
>Yeah, I get royalties. So I wont make any claims as to which is 
>best.
>
>Seirawan is rumored to have one in the works.

I have heard that Fischer himself is sitting in Serbia writing on a book about
the match. Can anyone confirm this?

					Juffi

-- 
Johannes Fuernkranz                                 juffi@ai.univie.ac.at
Austrian Research Inst. for Artificial Intelligence    +43-1-5336112(Tel)
Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe        +43-1-5320652(Fax) 
--------------- "Life is too short for Chess." -- Byron -----------------
From: ashish@tfs.com (Ashish Mukharji)
Subject: Re: 2267 Performance Rating for 10-year old in Montreal
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:11:22 GMT

In article <9301011732.AA16898@helios> Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
>
>
>CCHB@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (Hugh Brodie) wrote:
>>  Does anyone know if a ten-year old has ever had an expert (or a
>>  master) rating before? (Fischer became a master at 13).
>
>Jeff Sarwer was rated in the 1900's when he was 10, but his father
>prevented him from playing in tournaments.  I played him when he was
>12 in a simul;  he toyed with me, was easily winning, and overlooked
>a one-mover.  I think he would certainly have made expert if he'd been
>given the chance.
>

Does anyone know what became of Jeff and his sister?  I vaguely remember
they were removed from the custody of their abusive father ... another
"mad dad achieves vicarious glory through kids" story.  :(

>jeff

-ashish

-- 
Ashish Mukharji      Jesus he knows me, and he knows I'm right,
ashish@tfs.COM       I've been talking to Jesus all my life ...    Genesis
From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: TO THE GM's/IM's FROM DON
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:41:42 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <DUBACH1.92Dec22050841@husc10.harvard.edu>, dubach1@husc10.harvard.edu (joev dubach) writes:
> In article <1992Dec21.102957.590@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>>In article <DUBACH1.92Dec21083431@husc10.harvard.edu>, dubach1@husc10.harvard.edu (joev dubach) writes:
>>> In article <1992Dec20.233336.585@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>>> 
>>>>My personal philosophy on life can be boiled down to:
>>> 
>>>>A working imperfect solution is better than a non-working perfect solution.
>>> 
>>>>I have little respect for 'critics' who lack the ability to climb to the top,
>>>>and it spills over....
>>> 
>>> Mmm-hmm.  I take it you have little respect for yourself, then.
>>> 
>>> Joev
>>
>>Is that the best you can do?
> 
> No, I guess not.  I have little respect for your mindless prattling,
> your wasted verbiage, your uninformed drivel.  You disgust me.
> Rec.games.chess is for discussion of chess, not rhetorical sophistry.
> Please, take your lawyering and your arguments elsewhere.
> 
> Joev

Oh sorry, next time unless it is posting of a game record, I'll route it
through you for you approval.



> --
> _____________________________________________________
> DDDDDDDDD   JJJJJJ      | Joev Dubach
>      D      J     J     | dubach1@husc.harvard.edu
>      D      J     J     | 249 North Mail Center
> D    D      J     J     | Harvard University
> DDDDD    *  JJJJJJ  *   | Cambridge, MA 02138
From: zeng@apple.com (T. Zeng)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Mchess Pro
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:08:48 GMT
Followup-To: rec.games.chess
Organization: Apple Computer

In article <1grateINN9dq@pith.uoregon.edu>, kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin
Gowen) wrote:
> 
> 
> Seriously, don't even *think* about running M-Chess Pro on this primitive
> system.  It wants 12 Meg to run its hash tables, will take 4Meg if that's
> all that's available, and God only knows what it'll do with only 1Meg.
> Will it even run?  Please consider upgrading, if you can afford it.  You'll
> get a lot more "oomph" out of MChess if you do.

Does anybody know how deep M-Chess Pro search ?  From the rating it has,
it seems to me it should search about 8-9 ply or deeper. But that will
require
pretty fast machine.

Or it is because the program has pretty good evaluation function so that
a shallower search will give a very good result.

I am reading the book 'All the right moves' by the author of the chess
program
Hi Tech. I would like to find out how deep M-chess ( or any chess program
that has similar strength ) ? 


---Tie

> -kevin
> kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu
From: mphelps@amama.enet.dec.com (Matthew W. L. Phelps)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: US Championship Round 14 GAMES
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:55:35 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <34514@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>, mginsbur@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Mark Ginsburg) writes...
> 
>Chess question:  why did Rachels refrain from the well-known
>9. dxe6 e.p. in his game with Gulko?
> 
>Didn't Petrosian lose a hideous game to Tal this way?
> 
>I think 9. dxe6 Bxe6 is quite a comfortable edge for white.
> 
>Comments?
> 
>-mark

Did I miss something? I didn't get the round 14 games on my server. Were they
posted? If so, can someone e-mail them to me at mphelps@amama.enet.dec.com.

Thanks,


	Matthew W. L. Phelps		mphelps@amama.enet.dec.com
	Digital Equipment Corp.		"My stuff, not DEC's"

	Transaction Processing Systems Engineering, Littleton, MA, USA
From: kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Computer-readable games & compositions & dumbing down CM3000
Date: 1 Jan 1993 04:26:56 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
NNTP-Posting-Host: cie.uoregon.edu
Keywords: computer notation

In article <1992Dec30.224935.16381@rchland.ibm.com> lwloen@rchland.vnet.ibm.com writes:
>I am a "woodpusher", second class.  Never been rated, but would probably come out
>between USCF 1400 and 1600 based on my informal games with rated players.
>
>I love composed problems and good games, though.  Even though the FAQ looks
>down on it a bit, I bought CM3000 because it is available and because I have
>a 486/20 to run it on.  So far, it seems plenty strong for me.
>
>...[stuff deleted]
>
>PS, how does one "dumb down" a typical chess program so that it plays at a known
>rating?  I'd love to downgrade CM3000 down to about a 1500 level so I could
>have a fairer chance of competing.

I own CM3000 and I dumb it down by restricting it's time allowed to search.
Unlike other chess programs, when you give it, say, 10 seconds to move, it
will take 10 seconds and not one second more.  It also is not picky about
your time, so you can take as long as you want.  Of course you can't dumb
it down to a specific rating, but you can certainly experiment with it until
you're comfortable with its level of play.

CM3000 has it's own dumb-down feature called "Vision" which you can limit
by a little graphical slide switch, but I have heard that this feature
doesn't work all that well.

>   Larry W. Loen        |  My Opinions are decidedly my own, so please

-kevin
kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu




Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser)
Subject: Re: Saitek Travel Champion
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:20:48 GMT

Daniel_Marsalone@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Daniel Marsalone) writes:


>    Hello, I was contemplating the purchase of a new portable chess
>computer. I have the Saitek Traveller but now I have gotten to the point
>where I can destroy it at any level. Therefore I need something stronger. I
>have seen the Saitek Travel Champion advertised in Chess Life and am
>seriously thinking of getting it. Before I do, however, I would like to get
>your opinions on it.

>    My criteria for the chess computer are:
>  
>                     *portable
>                     *under $100
>                     *strong (ie, able to beat a 'B' player at under       
>5 seconds per move)

>    
>  Any help will be appreciated.

>-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

>Daniel Marsalone             Daniel Marsalone            Daniel Marsalone
>Internet: daniel_marsalone@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US
>    UUCP: rex!agwbbs!daniel_marsalone


I recently bought the Travel Champion.  I find its combination of decent
program (say around 2050), usable portability (you can just put the lid on
and run), LCD display with good features, and seemingly stable, reliable
operation to be unsurpassed and unapproached in the price range.  I
previously owned the CXG Advance Star, which was a lot weaker and lacked
the LCD; and the TravelMaster, which was clumsy to use and lacked LEDs on
the coordinates (but played stronger -- when it worked).  Overall, the
Travel Champion is by far the most usable.
 
-Roy Eassa (last rated 1956 in the early '80s)
From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: TO THE GM's/IM's FROM DON
Date: 23 Dec 92 11:59:19 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <POPE.92Dec22101846@walnut.kpc.com>, pope@walnut.kpc.com (John Pope) writes:
>>   Incorrect. Pure specualtion at its worst is to not speculate at all.
> 
> Uninformed speculation *is* worse than none at all, as you have proved
> on r.g.c these last few weeks.

Go read Pete barlow's posts. It would do you good.

Further material deleted without comment following advice from Abraham Lincoln.

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: moynihan@rtsg.mot.com (Kieran D. Moynihan)
Subject: A repost of US Champs. Rd. 10 please ?
Keywords: US Champs. Round 10
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:34:15 GMT

 Hi,
	I've been collecting the games from the US Champs and seemed to have missed round 10. Could someone repost them please ?

						Thanks,
							Kieran Moynihan,
							Cork,
							Ireland.
From: tom.lee@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Tom Lee) 
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: MAJOR BUMMER
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:05:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, (313)663-4173, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Reply-To: tom.lee@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Tom Lee) 

-> If it wipes out Tom's 9-0 record, I suggest you get out of town,
-> quick <G>.
->
-> hee hee, I'm waiting for his responce...

Uh, Rick. Can I talk to you for a moment?
Yeah, just step over here. That's right, a little closer.
Just a little closer...

ARGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!

OK, I'm all better now.

Corrupted data huh?  You guys fall for that?

Oh well, them's the breaks. At least it got rid of that draw that you
had me stuck with! <GRIN>
OK, folks, let's get these games rolling again.

Tom
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ekw@world.std.com (Elliott C Winslow)
Subject: Re: GAME 14
Summary: WHAT IS ALL THIS CRAP?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:55:30 GMT

In article <1656.41.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us> rick.franks@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Rick Franks)  writes:
>-> Something hiccupped and I lost carrier while I was playing game #14.
>-> Called back, and now I can't get back into the game. It's showing as
>-> busy. Guess the program still shows me playing.  Can you fix me up
>-> here?
>
>The game will be locked for an hour. After which, you may play it again.
>I would try to fix that now, but I better not. The last time I tried to
>fix it, we had to start all over again.
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I'm sure we all want to know about this.

FIX YOUR STUFF!
Thank you.

  --elliott
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jqtaylor@boi.hp.com (John Quill Taylor)
Subject: Best Free Chess Program
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:48:09 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

What is the strongest *free* chess program? The strongest one I have is a
corrupted version 1 of Psion - is there a later version in the public domain,
and where could I get it? I will probably buy Mchess for my 486/66 anyway
soon, but I'm curious what the best-for-free program is. -jqtaylor