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Subject: Re: Historical Question ...

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 14:31:17 04/02/01

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On April 02, 2001 at 17:24:57, Pete Galati wrote:

>On April 02, 2001 at 16:24:07, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>On April 02, 2001 at 16:05:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>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...
>>
>>
>>Hi Bob:
>>Maybe I am wrong, but in the 80's a program that runned in Atari and was called
>>"Odesta" was published as a supposed version of the Chess thing by Slate. Am I
>>right? It was strong -for that age- and came with a heavy booklet. Pity, I gave
>>it to the man that purchased me the Atari, long ago....
>>Fernando
>
>I'm not going to read all the way through this webpage, but you might find this
>somewhat interesting http://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n3/ComputerChess.html
>
>Pete

Thank you Pete, you have probed to myself my memory is not leaking yet...:-)
Fernando



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