Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:23:10 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 16:41:27, Mark Schreiber wrote: >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. correct.... bert gower was responsible for the book. Harry was the 'efficiency expert' on the cray and wrote a lot of assembly language to replace the FORTRAN code I had written. I was the primary programmer/designer of Cray Blitz... We were _never_ paid anything as part of the project. Cray sponsored us by giving us unlimited access to cray machines for testing, and dedicated access to machines for tournaments. That was _all_ we ever received, support-wise.
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