Free downloads for various platforms available here http://www.chessgenius.com/pc/index.html you have to pay £20 for a licence to unlock most of the options, but it gives a playable game, instantaneous response and a feel very similar to the original. You can beat it the same way as the original as well - just play solidly with white (inverse stonewall, say), and very very slowly build an attack. I'm sure that with a licence, and the advanced levels unlocked it would play better.
Of course these days there are far stronger chess programs for the PC. The Fritz family comes to mind. Fritz8 plays to near master level on a fast PC, and even Fritz2 is stronger than psion chess. Fritz2 fits on a 3.5" floppy with a database of several thousand classic games. Hiarcs seems to play the most aggressively - plays the most amazing winning sacrifices. Jeremy Jeremy Taffel wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
