Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 07:08:15 11/17/00
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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... Just a little correction: first crop -challenger 1, 3,7, 10, etc- came from Ron Nelson. The Spracklen came into the company with Chess Champion Challenger, in 1980. They have created, before, sargon 1, 2 and 3, the strongest little chess soft in the end of seventies. So they were hired, created Chess Champion and since then all was fully spracklen crop Fernando > > > >> >>It seems a fact that he started Fidelity Electronics which was a very good thing >>to do, but at what level was his contribution? Did he code, exhort, fund, or >>what? >> >>Thanks for any information, >> >>Walter
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