Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 03:46:39 03/13/01
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On March 13, 2001 at 02:57:57, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 I was there! But of course, four isn't very many either :-( Andrew
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