Author: Lenard Spencer
Date: 15:00:33 01/29/01
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On January 28, 2001 at 11:14:58, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi T: >I also miss Martyn B. and after a long search I located him and I sustained some >comunication with him about why he left the field. It happened a couple of >years ago. He said to me that he just got bored of it and prefered to go to >checkers field. He thought not enough mone worth the effort was gotten in chess >programming. In Checkers he produced some very good programs, but BTW I do not >know if there he got the money he wanted. Nevertheless I insisted: maybe he >could come back some day. I questioned that and he said "maybe some day. In any >case I feel I could tweak for the best almost any current chess program. I have >learned many more tricks for that". So maybe some day we will see another >Colossus. Yes, Colossus 4 was very good. I runned it in an old Atari and was >worth the money. And yes, it was better than Colossus X. >Fernando Ah, yes, the old guard, I remember them well. I still have my old Atari 800XL (a couple of them, in fact) and every now and then I fire up the old programs just to remember how it feels to actually WIN a game. Sargon II, Colossus 3 and 4, Chessmaster 2000, Chess 7.0 (Larry Atkin's program distributed by Odesta), and several others. I remember when the Odesta program came out in 1982 it sold for US$79, and I got mine in a clearance sale for $20. Like most all the programs of the time, fairly decent in middlegame tactics at longer time controls, but somewhat lacking in the endgame.... Those were the days....
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