Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 16:13:02 03/07/04
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On March 07, 2004 at 18:47:15, steven blincoe wrote: >hi Alan >> I have: a) 1997 - Fidelity Chess Chalanger 7 - rated at that time 1300 elo. > >typo of course..1987 > > >the old chess computers of yesteryear were the building blocks of todays >screaming meamie PC progs (running on a gabillion Mhz and taking up 20 Gig of >program code) > >the chess programmers of the first dedicated units(Nelson,the >Spraclen's,Kittenger,etc..)used far less program code and had far less hardware >to work with.and yet still produced very reasonable playing programs > >i oft wonder what todays sucessful "Super Star" programmers would have produced >had they so little to work with > >im betting...it would not have been pretty > >Minimalist Regards >Steve Talking about minimalism in computer chess programming, Frans Morsch of today would have done very well... He is a real master at utilizing the last ounce of RAM and some of his programs hosted by the machines of yore were just fine: i.e. the SuperMondial or the later 16K machines with only half a K for RAM. Richard Lang was pretty good too -- remember his Cyrus. Regards. Djordje
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