Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:43:14 11/16/00
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On November 16, 2000 at 23:14:29, James T. Walker wrote:
>On November 16, 2000 at 21:25:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 16, 2000 at 20:55:25, Walter Koroljow wrote:
>>
>>>The November Chess Life from USCF has an article extolling Sid Samole. He
>>>invented computer chess, he won tournaments x,y,z, etc. But it is written in
>>>such a fuzzy way that I never did find out what he did.
>>
>>
>>He didn't invent computer chess. He didn't develop a chess program. He
>>was the president of Fidelity Electronics (in Miami, FL) which developed
>>and sold the various Fidelity chess machines. Most (or all) of the
>>programs in those machines came from the Spracklens...
>>
>Hello Bob,
>Filelity made the Chess Challenger 3 then the Chess Challenger 10 then the Chess
>Challenger 7. I don't know who wrote the programs for those machines. I wish I
>did. I'm sure this was before the Spraklens.
Mmh... I must have the name of the guy somewhere in my old paper magazines. But
I'm sure somebody else is going to give you the name before I can even find
it...
BTW, from the same guy, you forget the famous Chess Challenger Voice.
> They brought the "Sargon" program
>with them when they were hired.
That's right. After Sargon 2.5 they left Applied Concept (the company which had
produced the Boris series).
> I believe the Chess Challenger series was the
>first commercial chess machines although "Boris" was very close in there
>somewhere.
The Chess Challenger 3 is the first chess computer I'm aware of. The "Boris"
came one year after I think.
Christophe
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