Author: Slater Wold
Date: 21:23:19 01/11/04
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On January 11, 2004 at 16:42:15, martin fierz wrote: >On January 11, 2004 at 16:11:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On January 10, 2004 at 16:24:59, Jim Bodkins wrote: >> >>>The US doesnt play chess really. USCF has 90,000 members out of 1/3 billion >>>people and just went bankrupt (over about $300,000 - chump change to a pro >>>basketball player) and had to sell its store to an english firm. Most of the top >>>US players (USCF) are immigrants not native. >>> >>>I'm a native American, so dont get mad. We play baseball not chess. Chess isnt >>>culturally a part of the US at all. People (Garry) come here mainly because of >>>money not chess. Chess software doesnt interest most programmers in my >>>experience. OS's, databases etc do. >>> >>>The US will get hammered, but the guys will probably have fun anyway. >>> >>>... oh, and we do Mars missions. :) >> >>I believe people on this message board have forgotten their history. :) Shannon >>was American, the revolutionary programs MacHack and CHESS were American, the >>world champions Belle, Deep Thought, and Cray Blitz were American. > >you are forgetting the first computer chess programmer - alan turing, not >exactly american :-) WHAT?! Claude Shannon is American... And he was before Turing...
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