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Subject: Re: Is there any woman in CCC?

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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