Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 23:57:57 03/12/01
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On March 13, 2001 at 02:01:55, Thorsten Czub wrote: >yes i can. >it was nice for me too. >we tried to help computerschach and spiele to do the round bulletins. >i think there were 1 or 2 pc's and chess-base-starter installed on it, >so we were able to type in the games. >the bulletin in those days was made with scissors and paper and glue. >i think there was only one scissor in the whole area, a big one. >and we all fought to use it. each day people asked us to lend this scissor. >but we had the power over it ! >we had to have to build the bulletin accurate. my "friend" siggi >schuette convinced rank xerox to copy the bulletin, and one day, >after 6 or 7 people have asked us to lend the scissor, GM Helmut Pfleger, >who is very known in germany because of his television chess-shows, >came and asked for it too. >we all LOL and he did not understand WHY. >Also i remember one evening dieter, frederic and siggi and me were sitting >in a pub when siggi and dieter made a bet: that siggi could not drink 10 >glass beer at once (in a row)! >siggi won the bet, and dieter lost his suitcase. why? >when siggi had drunken the last beer, we all sat on the table as suddenly >he spite out all the beer over the table. >i was lucky, because sitting next to siggi, but dieter and frederic were >in the direction of siggi spitting out the stuff. >i will never forget dieters face in this moment :-))) > >one day thomas nitsche held a speech about AI search techniques in orwell and >mephistoIII. i think not many people understood him. >but i remember that some people (i know who) called him a fool. >i don't think he ever was or is. pity he lived few years in the future while >all others lived in the present. > >cologne was not very succesful for mephisto and richard. >kaare danielsen came with a tiny machine, 20 cm "big" and the keys of this >machine were very very difficult to "operate". i think it ran with batteries. > >ulf rathsmann was also there (mephisto A-strategy/search program !!) > >ed had success with rebel. he got a deal with H+G and i remember mr. hegener >coming in the last round, watching the program and beeing with ed, jan. The contact with H+G was already established, but after the tournament I was offered much better conditions. Not that I cared because I would have taken any offer as long I could spend my full time on the chess engine. Actually the latter was a demand by H+G and I had to decide to give up my good job which wasn't an easy decision. But in the end I took the challenge and obeyed my computer chess genes. >one day rebel had heating problems and jan or somebody else helped with cooling >it with a hair-fan !!! this was quite a picture ! >somebody cooling a machine with a hair-fan !! Correct! I somewhere have a picture of that. The machine was an APPLE 2E running at 1 (!!) Mhz that was upgraded by a technician to 8-10 Mhz. This was of course asking for trouble. My guess was that because of the 400-600 visitors some extra heat was produced and that was just the limit for the processor to handle. Those were the days that many people came over to watch this new phenomenon. I remember 1981 the first ducth championship, 1500 vistors, television, all major news papers reported. Compare this with the world championship in London 2000. Just 3 (!!) visitors who came a few days later and stayed for a few days. Their names: - Ossi Weiner - Frederic Friedel - Richard Lang Why oh why... Ed
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