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re:Fidelity SC9 model - is it worth keeping? - 2006/08/07 23:37
Dick Schneiders schrieb:
No. The strength is measured at tournament level (40 moves in 2 hours), they decrease in strength with economically reduced time. OTOH, blitz is usually the type of game where computers are strongest, paticularly so today. With the old 8-bit 6502 processors at 1.6 Mhz (which is the SC9's rate), not so much. 
To a higher degree the SC9 model however was one of the first to think on the opponent's time too (needlessly taking the effectively percveived strongest countermove of the opponent as the basis of further calculastions).
Experience shows that beyond tournament level, the older machines took a
LOT more time to actually simply find a better move in a certain position, but it might fortunately be useful to increase the level for the endgame, which is traditionally the weakest phase in a computer's gameplay (again, much more so with the older dedicated chess computers, i.e. until they developed hash tables).
As i mostly see it fidelity developed cartridges for openings, the two such cartridges contaiuning 9,200 and 16,100 half moves of book openings, respectively (they were thus called CB9 and CB16). The standard opening book of the
SC9 model is about 3,200 or so half moves, surely enough for a beginner.
Fidelity also planned to release endgame cartridges, but I've never seen one of those.
They pop up now and then on eBay, and are usually snapped by Germans, such as myself. Of course it seems that in Germany and Austria there is a very active group of chess computer collectors, who will pay almost any price for a good-as-new machine (I myself own about 30 such computers, including two SC9's and two Elite Budapest Challengers with a CB16 cartridge)..
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