Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:05:18 12/27/97
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On December 27, 1997 at 19:33:13, Don Dailey wrote: > >>Hsu's first event was the 1986 ACM event. I didn't go as we had a heck >>of a time getting Cray time for the WCCC in Germany that year. Hsu did >>very poorly, due to lots of hardware bugs, but the sparkle was there. >>In >>1987 he blew everyone away and basically never looked back after that, >>although the Fritz problem in 95 did happen... > > >I remember playing "chiptest", his first hardware monster around this >time, I think it was in Texas somewhere and was an ACM event, I don't >remember the year or city but it probably within a year or two of >the 1986 Cologne championship. It seems like it was doing around >8 or 9 ply's and it was frustrating because I was doing 6 at most. >But it was so buggy we thought we might have a fighting chance but >of course we lost! I think Valvo played a speed match against >Langs program and won 7-3 (or was it 6-4?) at this tournament and also >this may have been Bell's last ACM tournament. I'm starting to lose >my memory here but it seems like Bell did quite well, maybe even >winning. I'm getting dates, events and places mixed up perhaps. > >-- Don I think you are talking about the 1986 ACM event, which Ken Thompson won, and where Hsu took the cover off of "chiptest". He played under that name for at least a couple of years, as we played against him in 1987 and lost. In any case, Belle did win, although neither Cray Blitz nor Hitech played due to the close proximity to the WCCC event that year...
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