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Message: [QUOTE="dgiharris, post: 2186741, member: 100300"] Wow, that is pretty good. My best rating was 1850 which is nothing to sneeze at. I won $400 back in college (1993) beating a chess computer. It was one of those chessboards where you press down on the pieces to let the computer know what you were moving... Something like this... [IMG]http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/phantomchessset-small.jpg[/IMG] the board was rated at 1800 and I stipulated that we set a time limit on the board giving each side 20 minutes to play which further increased my edge since back then, computers were fairly slow at 66 MHz but of course back then that was blazing fast (66 million computations a second :eek: how could a human being ever beat that LOL) . First game / bet was $100 and I was getting 2:1 on my money so only had to risk $50. I won and then went double or nothing and I won again :) [/QUOTE]