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This is indeed a very weak engine....

There were later strong 4K and 16k engines from Kaare Danielsen.
Nevertheless programmers tried AI and B Strategy ideas in those early years.

David Broughton, Thomas Nitsche.

Most programmers had 8 bit machines with 1 mhz (c64) and maximal 16-32 KB engine size. On the early 16 KB Ram homecomputers even less, e.g. engine sizes between 8 and 10 KB. There were mainly z80 and 6502 machines. One can say that a chess engine on 4 mhz z80 is maybe similar fast on a 2 mhz 6502. I...

I would like to talk about the progress of chess software of the past.

Don't put the chess computers/PCs to the internet. Do internet with another machine.

And similar things can be said about android and IOS.

The future is to download 1.x GB to play chess ???

amazingly strong this "final" engine !!!

I am considering to buy a commodore c64.

IMO talkchess is as dead as css forum.

Here strange new engines appear. The programmers do not tell us why their engines appear.

In the css forum the people discuss how to win at chessbase server.

As if this has anything to do with chess.

It was around 1996. I had a friend who was avid chess player. We both had an MSX homecomputer with ultrachess on it. Long story short: I got inspired by that and started developing a chess program. Unfortunately he died before my program got reasonably strong. I started writing it on a compaq lapto...