Author: Pete Galati
Date: 14:42:48 04/02/01
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On April 02, 2001 at 17:31:17, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 I have a slow leak. Q-Tips help though. Pete
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