Chess Player 2150

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Chess Player 2150

Chess Player 2150,
a commercial chess program developed by Chris Whittington in 1989, marketed by his company Oxford Softworks. The program ran on various most 68000 based platforms, like Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, and the 2175 version was also ported to run on Apple Macintosh and 8086 PCs. According to Thorsten Czub, Chess Player 2150 used a selective Shannon Type B Strategy, with its immanent affinity to blunder once in a game . Chess Player 2150, played the 1st Computer Olympiad 1989.

Chess Player 2175

The successor, the Chess Player 2175, also commercially called Chess Champion 2175 and Checkmate played the 2nd Computer Olympiad 1990, won the Bronze medal at the 3rd Computer Olympiad 1991, but suffered from a promotion bug at the 4th Computer Olympiad 1992 and later withdrew from the tournament .

See also

• Chess Simulator
• Complete Chess System
• Chess System Tal
• SuperChess

Forum Posts

• Re: La Máquina Preservadora. Programas de Ajedrez by duct, Meca Foro, May 20, 2016 (Spanish)
• Chess Champion 2175 by Colin Gough, CCC, December 31, 2016

External Links

• Chess Player 2150's ICGA Tournaments
• Download Chess Programs hosted by Ed Schröder
• Chess Player 2150 from MobyGames
• Atari ST Old Computer Chess Game Collection - Chess Player 2150 from The Spacious Mind
• Guardians of the PaST : Chess Player 2150
• Chess Player 2150 Amiga - HOL database
• Chess Champion 2175 Amiga - HOL database
• Checkmate Amiga - HOL database
• Chess Champion 2175 (EU) Box Shot for Atari ST - GameFAQs
• Amiga Reviews: Chess Champion 2175

References

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