Chess Match: Shady Bill vs. Skybird

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Originally Posted by Skybird

While I was searching back to 2019 for threads I have started and whether there is any squirrel in them, I nevertheless found this.

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=242796

That is the original MM-IV software,. just runnign on nowadays suoerfats hardware. Back the n it never calculated 16 halfmoives (it slimit) ahead, and woukd ahve needed days and night for it if it had the memory (it was an 8 bit CPU and 32 MB RAM...). today oyu enter oyur mvoe, and two seconds later it has done those 16 halfmoves... The interface worked via mouse pointer and the buttons in the bottom left corner (no drag and drop of the symbols). I find this cool although i have the real machine.







The computer submarine game by Parker, Codename: Sector, from the late 70s, also has such an emulator with an orginal display of the hardware interface in that game.

I had this back in the eighties 'till it died an early death from overuse: and am considering this as its replacement:so I don't live up to Eichhörnchen's premature billing quite so quickly:

Originally Posted by EichBBY

And this is why no-one will ever beat Sky at chess

Originally Posted by Skybird

Today, compared to my youth days when I played tournaments, I am a chess noob again. It's like shooting: a perishable skill. Rest, and you will rust.

Originally Posted by ME

...and get my game in shape enough to hold my own at 71 brainwise ??...along with an Aricept prescription.

Ironically we both admit to a discernable cerebral deficiency in our dotage; and Skybird still has a 16 year advantage on me! Prhaps we could play on the beach like Magnusen and Niemann did in Miami just prior to the cheating scandal game:Niemann got his butt kicked on the sand! but suddenly defeated Magnusen in the tournement??!>