Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:51:19 11/08/98
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On November 08, 1998 at 08:13:10, John Wentworth wrote:
>10 to 20 years ago there were a lot of chess programs on mainframes and these
>were competing in the ACM tournaments. All of a sudden they disappeared, cost
>and the advances in PCs I'am assuming. However, seems like there must be someone
>out there programming on a mainframe, I mean they are so superior in speed over
>the PC's it's laughable. Last I heard Deep Blue no longer existed, and someone
>was working on Socrates, but you never hear of that anymore either.
Socrates is Don Dailey's baby, who post here often. As far as I know Don is
still working on an "all platform" multiprocessing chess program called
"CilkChess". Cilk is a parallel oriented language. CilkChess is written in Cilk,
and so has the ability to be compiled for uni- or multiprocessor platforms.
Unless I am wrong, Don can produce a PC or mainframe version of his program when
he wants.
Don, please correct me if I missed something.
> Also, like to know where all the older programs are now, like Belle, Cray
>Blitz, Nuchess, BEBE etc. Probably been erased or sitting on a shelf somewhere,
>just curious if anyone knows.
Cray Blitz was written by Bob Hyatt, who post here more than often. I've heard
that Cray Blitz has not been erased at all, and has even run some long test
suite recently (less than one year).
Cray Blitz' successor is the well known freeware program Crafty, which is
discussed here very often.
Bob, your turn to correct me. :)
Christophe
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