Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 05:36:59 01/28/01
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On January 28, 2001 at 08:02:54, Paul wrote: >On January 28, 2001 at 04:47:29, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On January 28, 2001 at 03:43:29, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>>for me it is important that ALL kind of programs play. that the tournament >>>>relates the best OLD programs with the best NEW programs. >> >>>All kind of programs do not participate. >> >>>I do not complain about it because the really old programs of 1980 have no >>>chance. >> >>>Old programs of 5 years ago can compete and have practical chance to surprise >>>the new programs in a minority of the cases. >>> >>>Uri >> >>that is right. although i think it is a pity that e.g. people like spracklan and >>also martin bryant do not program chess anymore. >>i miss them and their efforts. the spracklan programs played interesting. >>not too good in tactics. often creative. also colossus chess4 i remember very >>good. it was on my cpc464 it played very interesting selective chess, IMO >>even better than colossus chess X later on Atari or PC. >>what a pity. > >Hey ... I remember Colossus also ... played that on my Acorn BBC Master comp! I >must still have that somewhere. If I remember correctly that was the first time >I saw 'Null Moves'. The mainline on screen even had 'Null' moves in it! That >sure was strange ... but it's a loooong time ago, at least it feels that way ... I remember Colossus too, but for me it was on a commodore 64 :) After a quick search I found Colossus for commodore 64 there : http://www.lemon64.com/ the loading page was one of the more beautyfull for this time ... :)
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