Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:07:05 03/08/01
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On March 08, 2001 at 05:41:27, Graham Laight wrote: >On March 08, 2001 at 02:40:59, Tina Long wrote: > >>On March 08, 2001 at 00:35:23, Pham Minh Tri wrote: >> >>>On March 08, 2001 at 00:20:54, Chessfun wrote: >>> >>>>On March 07, 2001 at 21:10:52, Pham Minh Tri wrote: >>>> >>>>>If yes, happy to all women on International Women's day (8 March). >>>>>If no, just remind you all to check (this day may be correct in your country) >>>>>and do your responsibilities. Do not forget everything because of computer chess >>>>>:-)) >>>> >>>>Actually it's International Women's week Mar 4-10. Not sure about any >>>>specific Women's day. Secretarys day gets more attention anyways. >>>> >>>>Sarah. >>> >>>I am little curious if there is any woman working on this field. Only few of >>>them work on chess or on computer science. I guess that none of them work on >>>computer chess. Do you know any special case? >> >>Hi Pham, >>I am Woman, hear me Roar. >> >>Woman working in this field: >>The only one I can recall was Kath Spracklin (sp????) who was co-author, with >>her husband whose name I forget, of the Fidelity series of chess computers, and >>perhaps also the Sargon chess program. I don't belive she currently works in >>computer chess. (the reliability of the above paragraph ranges from "pretty >>sure" to "very unsure") >> >>I don't know what she actually did (programming, gui, bookdatabase). > >As I recall, Dan was a professional programmer, wheras Kath was a tournament >chess player. > >-g I remmeber that I read that Kath was responsible for the evaluation function and Dan for the search but I am not sure if I remmeber correctly. It is not important if Kath was not a proffesional programmer because this was not the question. The question was if she was involved in wrioting the source code of Sargon and I understood that she was involved. Uri
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