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Subject: Re: Are there other Chess programs from Alabama?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:17:10 03/31/00

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On March 30, 2000 at 23:32:11, Pete Galati wrote:

>On March 30, 2000 at 21:31:32, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On March 30, 2000 at 18:15:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On March 30, 2000 at 17:00:25, Pete Galati wrote:
>>>
>>>>It just occured to me today, that with Bob being a professor in University of
>>>>Alabama, I would sort of have expected there to be a few Chess programs other
>>>>than Crafty coming out of the Birmingham area.  Are there, and I just don't
>>>>realize it?  Were some of the familier programs from the USA originally from
>>>>Alabama?
>>>>
>>>>I know this isn't really important, I'm just curious about the matter.
>>>>
>>>>Pete
>>>
>>>
>>>Dave Kittinger lives about 200 miles south of me, in Mobile, Alabama.  He's
>>>been in computer chess a very long time as well... wrote several programs
>>>including wchess...
>>>
>>>We never worked together...
>>>
>>>Bob
>>
>>Kittinger also wrote the engine that was used in the first Chessmaster (2000).
>>
>>jm
>
>Did he do CM3000?  I have CM3000, but the Windows version didn't get
>re-installed yet after my HD swap, and I can't find the info in the Dos version
>of CM3000.
>
>Pete
>
>Pete

I do not think that he did CM3000. His name is nowhere in the credits (as it was
in CM2000). The full name of CM3000 was the "Fidelity Chessmaster", and I think
that was a different engine than Kittinger's. I really don't know for sure....

jm




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