Psion chess was written by Richard Lang. It's more recent incarnations are as Chess Genius for PC, pocket PC etc. It is even stronger now, but still about the same price. I had a private correspondence with him a while ago - as I have a whole archive of old chess games stored on disc, and while I have a version of psion chess which runs under uqlx etc, it can't read the old data files. Unfortunately he neither remembers or has documentation on the file formats he used back then. I get the impression that that side of things was handled by someone at psion and not himself. Jeremy
Neil Riley wrote: > Psion Ches was the first 'game' I bought.... on my 19th birthday ( that would > be 21st December 1985 ), > that actually sounds a little sad but I did get very wrecked that night :-). > I think it cost about £20 but I thought it not only looked amazing ( esp on a > Microvitec QL monitor) but played amazing too, plus it beat me every time ( > shan't mention which level but thinking time was a few short seconds ! ). > It's one of only a few games that I leave on DEMO mode. > > > I often wonder what happened to the developers, QL book authors, magazine > writers of the QL era. > Are these guys still around?? > > Neil R. 00007 Reading UK > > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26 September 2006 19:32 >>> >>>> >>> Is that the Psion chess below? I highly recommend it to anyone. Psion, >>> despite being "only" 67K and old, >>played one of the most amazing games >>> I've ever seen, any chess package, even a master, maybe >>> grandmaster. This includes Francois Lanciault's Blackknight (I wrote >>> reviews for QL magazines). (In fact, I >>need to find my notes; while Psion >>> was playing White, it may have been Blackknight playing Black >>> indirectly). >>> > > >>> Come to think of it, an annotated version of the Psion game could even make >>> a QLT article. Even an >>> interesting one :-) . >>> > > >>> Doug L. 37830 USA >>> > > > *********************************************************************************** > The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. > It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor > may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company > on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the > company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your > responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. > No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email > communications. > > www.boxclever.co.uk > *********************************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
