Author: Mark Schreiber
Date: 13:41:27 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 14:16:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 28, 2000 at 13:00:33, Aaron Tay wrote: >>Not sure about Anmon, but Crafty was based on a mainframe computer which used >>to have tons of money thrown at it?? > >The author of both programs is Robert Hyatt. Certainly many of the techniques >learned from Cray Blitz were applicable to Crafty. However, you might be >surprised to find how little money was really spent on development. I rather >suspect that the lion's share of the expense went to Cray computer time. There were 2 other people involved in the mainframe cray blitz project. They were Harry Nelson and Albert Gower. 1 was a good chess player and the other helped with the programming. They may not have been paid, but they did devote lots of time to the project. I sure bob will correct me if I’m wrong.
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