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Subject: Re: Historical Question ...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:05:24 04/02/01

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On April 02, 2001 at 15:57:04, Mark Loftus wrote:

>I was recently reading about the Slate/Atkin programs, Chess 3.X and Chess 4.X
>and their fine tournament performances in the 1970s. I'd like to know if there
>ever was a Chess 1.0 or 2.0 and if there are any available games from them.
>
>Mark Loftus


The first one I saw was chess 3.x, which was replaced by 4.0 around
1974-1975.

They did publish a chess 0.9 or something similar in Byte Magazine in
the late 70's/early 80's somewhere.

And Dave Slate wrote a program that was alternatively called either Chess 5.0
or NuChess depending on who wrote the article...




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