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Re: favourite Apple II chess game?



In <89SdnUwMoa6UcsjYnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@bresnan.com> Terry Olsen wrote:
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>> Sargon played much better - I rarely won against Sargon.
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> 
> Has anyone ever pitted Sargon (or other A2 Chess game) against a 
> modern  counterpart on a PC or Mac?

Many years ago I used to play Sargon II on a friend's Apple IIc. When I 
got my own Apple clone (Dick Smith Cat, aka Laser 3000) I had the 
brilliant idea of pitting Sargon II against itself. This involved 
running the game on both computers, one playing black and the other 
white, and then manually entering the moves into each game. 
Unfortunately, not so brilliantly, we set both games to the same 
difficulty level. The result was a draw, with each game ending up with 
just their queen left, moving back and forth across the board.

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