Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:13:25 11/18/00
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On November 17, 2000 at 10:08:15, Fernando Villegas 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...
>
>Just a little correction: first crop -challenger 1, 3,7, 10, etc- came from Ron
>Nelson.
Oh yes. That was the name I was looking for. He also programmed the Chess
Challenger Voice, his best program I believe.
Christophe
> The Spracklen came into the company with Chess Champion Challenger, in
>1980. They have created, before, sargon 1, 2 and 3, the strongest little chess
>soft in the end of seventies. So they were hired, created Chess Champion and
>since then all was fully spracklen crop
>Fernando
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>>
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>>>
>>>It seems a fact that he started Fidelity Electronics which was a very good thing
>>>to do, but at what level was his contribution? Did he code, exhort, fund, or
>>>what?
>>>
>>>Thanks for any information,
>>>
>>>Walter
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