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Cleaning my hard drive and found a copy of Larry's program RexChess from 1990. Wonder if he's been secretly working on it all these years? :) I was going to play it against Rybka but couldn't get it to work in XP...
Mark
Mark
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WOW! a Dinosuar in your computer? :)
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:)
I have Socrates 3.0 (1993) :-) IIRC, Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman created it.
I have a 3.5" disk drive in my Vista computer, but couldn't get it to run although I tried some memory options in the properties. I don't have a DOS emulator. But some years ago, I still could run it on another comp with the DOS of Win98.
[Event "Oldies II"]
[Site "Wien"]
[Date "2001.01.01"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Socrates 3.0"]
[Black "Mephisto Lyon 16Bit"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnqnkbbr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNQNKBBR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "83"]
1. d4 c5 2. d5 e6 3. Nbc3 Qc7 4. e4 a6 5. f4 f5 6. Qe3 fxe4 7. Nxe4 b6 8. dxe6
dxe6 9. Ndc3 Nbc6 10. O-O-O e5 11. fxe5 Nxe5 12. Nd5 Bxd5 13. Rxd5 Ndc6 14. Qg3
h5 15. h4 Rd8 16. Rxd8+ Qxd8 17. Bxa6 Qd5 18. Nc3 Qe6 19. Bb5 Kf7 20. Bh2 Qh6+
21. Kb1 Kg8 22. Rf1 Qe6 23. Qe3 Rh6 24. Re1 Be7 25. Bf4 Bxh4 26. g3 Bf6 27.
Bxh6 gxh6 28. Qxh6 Nd4 29. Qxh5 Nxb5 30. Nxb5 Qd7 31. Nc3 Qf7 32. Ne4 Bg7 33.
Qh4 Qf8 34. Rh1 Qf3 35. Qd8+ Bf8 36. Nf6+ Kf7 37. Qe8+ Kxf6 38. Qxf8+ Kg5 39.
Qe7+ Kf5 40. g4+ Qxg4 41. Rf1+ Nf3 42. Qe3 1-0
This is from a shuffle chess experiment, Chess960 compatible positions. Lyon with 40/2h and Socrates with 60/20m or ~20 sec/move (I forgot it's level settings), on a PII/333 MHz. The idea was to emulate a 486 with 40/2h, but Socrates' permanent brain couldn't be deactivated. - I also have Kasparov's Gambit from that era from the same authors (published by EOA):
I have a 3.5" disk drive in my Vista computer, but couldn't get it to run although I tried some memory options in the properties. I don't have a DOS emulator. But some years ago, I still could run it on another comp with the DOS of Win98.
[Event "Oldies II"]
[Site "Wien"]
[Date "2001.01.01"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Socrates 3.0"]
[Black "Mephisto Lyon 16Bit"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnqnkbbr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNQNKBBR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "83"]
1. d4 c5 2. d5 e6 3. Nbc3 Qc7 4. e4 a6 5. f4 f5 6. Qe3 fxe4 7. Nxe4 b6 8. dxe6
dxe6 9. Ndc3 Nbc6 10. O-O-O e5 11. fxe5 Nxe5 12. Nd5 Bxd5 13. Rxd5 Ndc6 14. Qg3
h5 15. h4 Rd8 16. Rxd8+ Qxd8 17. Bxa6 Qd5 18. Nc3 Qe6 19. Bb5 Kf7 20. Bh2 Qh6+
21. Kb1 Kg8 22. Rf1 Qe6 23. Qe3 Rh6 24. Re1 Be7 25. Bf4 Bxh4 26. g3 Bf6 27.
Bxh6 gxh6 28. Qxh6 Nd4 29. Qxh5 Nxb5 30. Nxb5 Qd7 31. Nc3 Qf7 32. Ne4 Bg7 33.
Qh4 Qf8 34. Rh1 Qf3 35. Qd8+ Bf8 36. Nf6+ Kf7 37. Qe8+ Kxf6 38. Qxf8+ Kg5 39.
Qe7+ Kf5 40. g4+ Qxg4 41. Rf1+ Nf3 42. Qe3 1-0
This is from a shuffle chess experiment, Chess960 compatible positions. Lyon with 40/2h and Socrates with 60/20m or ~20 sec/move (I forgot it's level settings), on a PII/333 MHz. The idea was to emulate a 486 with 40/2h, but Socrates' permanent brain couldn't be deactivated. - I also have Kasparov's Gambit from that era from the same authors (published by EOA):
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PB Try Dosbox, this is very useful for running old dos progs in current windows boxes.
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
Also got a link for Rexchess :-)
http://www.chesspraga.cz/download/dos/rex230.rar
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
Also got a link for Rexchess :-)
http://www.chesspraga.cz/download/dos/rex230.rar
I have Kasparov's Gambit; it was one of my favorite programs during my late middle school days. Unfortunately, I have never been able to get it to work on my machine in DOS mode--it always says something about not having the available RAM or something, even when there is obviously easily enough RAM in the system.
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This program was one of my favorite chess programs in the early of 90's.
Of course, Kasparov's Gambit was from the same authors, but it was using also the Socrates engine.
If you want a good DOS emulator then you could try with DOSBox; this emulator needs one interface to work and it is Dfend. You can download both programs in the same page. This emulator is easy to run and works very good but note that if you want to run old DOS programs at maximum speed, then this program is not useful. For this, you need Virtual PC Machine program and then install there an old Windows and from there you can run these DOS applications. Virtual PC machine is wonderful because it runs old programs at full processor speed and maximum strength.
Regards,
Gambito.
Of course, Kasparov's Gambit was from the same authors, but it was using also the Socrates engine.
If you want a good DOS emulator then you could try with DOSBox; this emulator needs one interface to work and it is Dfend. You can download both programs in the same page. This emulator is easy to run and works very good but note that if you want to run old DOS programs at maximum speed, then this program is not useful. For this, you need Virtual PC Machine program and then install there an old Windows and from there you can run these DOS applications. Virtual PC machine is wonderful because it runs old programs at full processor speed and maximum strength.
Regards,
Gambito.
Actually, Don Dailey said he might try to update one of our old programs with some of the discoveries in computer chess over the last two decades just to see how it would compare to today's programs. He also is starting a new program, called "Odie", with some collaboration from me. He is interested in trying out grand new ideas and doing experiments, rather than making something to market, so it's unlikely to be a rival for Rybka unless he happens on some great discovery. Most likely, his work will benefit Rybka.
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