Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 15:18:36 04/02/01
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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 Fernando, You are right. I used to have it on my Apple II, it was called Chess 7.0, produced by Odesta and authored by Slate and Atkin, I believe. I had it on a 5.25 disk for my Commodore too :) However, the program I remember even better for the Atari was Parker Chess (Parker Games)... I think that it at least as good as Chess 7.0. Good old days! *** Djordje
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