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I have it running on my mobile phone with magic dos box.
I made an image of the cd so I can give Android the copy protection cd.

No, public is not not allowed. It is a closed event. You cannot open the windows. Security protects the doors and there is no internet in the tournament hall. But you can wave your hands in the direction of the windows and maybe somebody inside sees it. The chairs in the tournament hall crash down t...

I have heard the participants start with their machines on their shoulders in Somport (Aragón) and when they arrive in Santiago they begin with the blitz tournament.

The version you refer to had broken style feature. All the style values are so much disarranged that the engines play very weak. It was published as a demo (pre beta of Cstal III) for other engine programmers to make their engine running in the Cstal III gui. It cannot be used for playing strength p...

I am not so sure if Chris w. Is a big help in this.

He mainly sold his company oxford softworks and also chess system tal together with all sources to another company
and now lives in another country.
He was not very constructive when it came about chess system tal in this forum.

Yes CSTal dos is a nice program. It shows a lot of engine information about tree and evaluation. Of course it was made for playing against humans. If you let it play against other engines you have to make sure the other engines are as old as CSTal, otherwise CSTal cannot hit because it is outsearched.

This is a good and high score.

I don't use chess guis for playing chess.
I have wooden boards and dedicated chess computers.

The 2d screen makes no sense. And the backlighted screen makes the eyes tired.

I prefer chess on a real chess board against humans or dedicated chess computers.

In older days the engines were kind of twin brother of the programmer. They showed the personality of the programmer. Today in times of strong open source codes, the programs are no twins of the programmers anymore. They are kind of clone of the public available sources. That’s making in uninteresti...

How shall this be if the engines don't know about chess, only how to come fast deep in the search tree ??