Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:27:31 03/31/00
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On March 31, 2000 at 19:17:10, John Merlino wrote: >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 Hmmm, I dropped CM3000 onto the HD now, it works fine on Windows 98, it's the first time I've tried it since that upgrade. I didn't see anything about "Fidelity Chessmaster", and I bought CM3000 used so all the original paperwork is missing. They didn't give credit for the Engine itself, but list a whole team of people, this is _part_ of it: Project Manager: David K. Goodman Windows Team Leader: David L. Bringhurst Programming Team: Dave Cobb Dan Baumbach Michael E. Duffy Hendrik Markarian Rick W. Glenn Craig Weisenfluh Dave P. Grenewetzki It seems that you had a better chance of working for Chessmaster if your name was Dave or David back then. The last place I worked had a large population of people named Jim, at least 30%. Pete
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