Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:28:59 02/02/02
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On February 01, 2002 at 17:38:06, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >Pioneer never played a game in the any match or tournament. It's urban legend. > >I have my thoughts about Centaur, and quick summary is: it's not better than >even my chess program (Siberian Chess). Certainly it was not in the league of >the leading chess programs of the day (Fritz 3, Chess Genious, Rebel, etc. on >micro; DT, CB on the "big iron"). > >Never heard anything about Dragon. Even if it was not worse than programs >mentioned above, there is hard fact: there was huge country that claimed to be >superpower and had good universities and military research. Results of all that >were not visible in the computer chess fields, with sole exception of KAISSA >several decades ago. > >Eugene You left off one very important detail. The former Soviet Union was a technologically backward country. They had _no_ computer manufacturing facilities of any kind. They considered the piece-of-junk ICL 4/70 as a "hot box" for example. :) That always gave Botvinnik a wonderful excuse however... "we don't have any decent computing hardware to use for our development so we can't make any real progress..." > >On February 01, 2002 at 13:46:40, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On January 31, 2002 at 18:40:27, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >> >>>Do you saw strong chess programs (other than KAISSA, that diead around 1977) >>>from the communist contries before fall of communism? >>> >>>Eugene >> >> >>i don't see your point. >> >>what about pioneer ? >>what about dragon ? >>what about centaur ? >> >>blown with the wind. >> >> >>glasnost and perestroika !
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