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Subject: Re: ?????what is cray blitz???????

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:14:13 03/30/00

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On March 29, 2000 at 23:54:05, Pete Galati wrote:

>On March 29, 2000 at 23:21:02, pavel wrote:
>
>>okies,
>>      i have reading the posts of this forum for some time (3months). and i have
>>seen the mention of cray blitz a lot of time, but i am doubtfull is it a chess
>>playing program or a system the program ran. not only that i dont know anything
>>about it. any games available? or is the program itself available?
>>i know that hyaat had something to do with it (probably wrote the program).
>>is there any webpage where i can find details about it?
>>thanks
>>pavel.
>
>I guess Cray Blitz won the World Computer Chess Championship in 1986 was it? on
>a monster Cray computer.  People keep asking if Crafty can beat Cray Blitz, not
>that it's important, but I find that a bothersome question since they're not
>geared for the same computers, and Cray Blitz probably hasn't been developed for
>years.

Cray Blitz won the WCCC twice, the first in 1983 in New York, the second time
in Germany in 1986.

>
>>
>>
>>
>>ps,  -------------POOL QUESTION -----------
>>
>>what makes computer chess (as a whole) more easier in this forum?
>>dann corbit
>>hyaat
>>pete gelati
>
>Spelled Galati, I'm usually just killing time.
>
>Pete
>
>>frank
>>and the others ;)        (just fooling around)



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