Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:52:07 01/16/01
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On January 16, 2001 at 20:51:40, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 16, 2001 at 18:47:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 16, 2001 at 17:30:51, John Wentworth wrote: >> >>>On January 15, 2001 at 22:55:24, Wayde Beasley wrote: >>> >>>>I bought Fritz the other day and have been playing with it. Slowly, surely, it >>>>comes upon me a kind of gestalt experience: FRITZ IS SOOOOOOO GERMAN! >>>> >>>>Whereas most other non-German engines strive for some elegance, this totally >>>>German approach goes for broke in pure tactical brilliance, pure calculational >>>>mastery. >>> >>>To bad it doesn't exist anymore :( >>>What programs would be on an American team, other than Crafty ? >> >> >>We have our share... Crafty... Ferret... Gnuchess... Wchess... >> Zarkov... Mchess Pro... The various versions >> of Socrates at MIT... HiTech... Cray Blitz if >> we tried hard... >> >>Etc. I am sure I missed several. > > > >If we try hard we could add Sargon. A very famous program, which has started >everything for me, I mean from a personal point of view. > > > > Christophe I knew I would forget more than one. All the way back to MacHack of course, and including Belle. The Spracklens were in the US at the time of sargon and its successors, although I have no idea where they are today.
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