Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:43:14 11/16/00
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On November 16, 2000 at 23:14:29, James T. Walker wrote: >On November 16, 2000 at 21:25:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 16, 2000 at 20:55:25, Walter Koroljow wrote: >> >>>The November Chess Life from USCF has an article extolling Sid Samole. He >>>invented computer chess, he won tournaments x,y,z, etc. But it is written in >>>such a fuzzy way that I never did find out what he did. >> >> >>He didn't invent computer chess. He didn't develop a chess program. He >>was the president of Fidelity Electronics (in Miami, FL) which developed >>and sold the various Fidelity chess machines. Most (or all) of the >>programs in those machines came from the Spracklens... >> >Hello Bob, >Filelity made the Chess Challenger 3 then the Chess Challenger 10 then the Chess >Challenger 7. I don't know who wrote the programs for those machines. I wish I >did. I'm sure this was before the Spraklens. Mmh... I must have the name of the guy somewhere in my old paper magazines. But I'm sure somebody else is going to give you the name before I can even find it... BTW, from the same guy, you forget the famous Chess Challenger Voice. > They brought the "Sargon" program >with them when they were hired. That's right. After Sargon 2.5 they left Applied Concept (the company which had produced the Boris series). > I believe the Chess Challenger series was the >first commercial chess machines although "Boris" was very close in there >somewhere. The Chess Challenger 3 is the first chess computer I'm aware of. The "Boris" came one year after I think. Christophe
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