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In article <32EB94E0.37D0@cm.co.za>, Bobby Abraham <bobby@cm.co.za>
writes:

>
>I am keen to have my 6 year old son play chess against a computer
>oppenent but even with one level of lookahead he gets beaten and tends
>to find this too demoralising.
>
>Does anyone know of a program which plays poor, but legal, chess so that
>it can be beaten by anyone at least some of the time ?

If you have or can get an Atari 800XL or 130XE computer, two programs that
have easy levels for it are SARGON II (its level 0 has no lookahead), and
Atari's own Computer Chess cartridge (levels 1 thru 7 are its normal
skills, level 8 is its "novice" level).  I also have one for the PC that
someone wrote in GW-Basic, that should help him get his spirits up, I just
have to find it.  Do you have Web access?  I can put it up on my Web page,
I'd rather not put it here, too much bandwidth already.  Or, I can Email
it to you.