9/1/2023 0 Comments Millennium chess and gamesMy friends at the Chesshouse sent me a Millennium Chess King – Performance computer. Little did I know this was all about to change. If you asked me a month ago whether I preferred playing on a computer screen or a real board, I would tell you it really doesn’t make a difference. Each year, several manufacturers released a dedicated chess computer in an attempt to target chess players who prefer playing on a 3D board versus a 2D screen. Intel released its Pentium CPU and suddenly PC software was outplaying Mephisto and other dedicated chess computers. It wasn’t until the mid 1990s that PC chess software started to come of age. Personal computers existed in the 1990s but they lacked the CPU and memory power needed to make them competitive against strong human players let alone other computers. The user interface has a series of physical buttons on the board that you can press to choose your difficulty level or customize the computer’s setting. Back then, a chess computer was always a self-contained system – underneath the chessboard was the microprocessor, memory and integrated circuits. The history of tabletop systems goes back to the 1980s. It is easy and fun to use and can be an effective training partner for any chess enthusiast. The Millennium Chess King is a standalone “tabletop” chess computer.
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