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Subject: Re: Amateur programs vs Commercial ones

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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