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Subject: Re: Collectos Corner: my game vs. Dallas 68.020 from 1987

Author: JNoomen

Date: 10:45:07 02/09/06

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On February 08, 2006 at 17:54:01, Steve B wrote:

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the credits! Around that time I must have had something like 2150
Elo. I plan to publish a little more of these old tournaments!

Excellence regards, Jeroen



>hi Jeroen
>
>thank you VERY much for that very interesting piece of chess computer history!
>
>it is very interesting to read about Jan Louwman the "Father of Chess computers"
>as very little was ever written about him here in the US
>i only know about his importance on the chess computer scene from talking to
>collectors and with correspondence with fellow Dutch friends
>even Tim Krabbe mentions his name often
>
>of course it was also highly interesting to read about your performance against
>these fairly strong computers
>
>can i ask you what the time control was?
>
>you must be a strong player to defeat these computers and even draw so easily
>
>i realize you are an opening book expert so you outbooked the Dallas 020 but
>still you must be a strong player
>
>i imagine that since you were able to score 3-4 from these computers that
>Louwman happily let you keep all of them for free??
>:))
>
>Eager  For More Schachcomputer Lore Regards
>Steve



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