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Subject: Re: Historical Question ...

Author: Mark Loftus

Date: 14:14:05 04/03/01

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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...

Was Chess 0.9 the source code or the full program?  I remember reading about
NuChess that came in the early 80s, but by that time other programs were
stronger, including of course your program on the Cray machine. Didn't you start
your work in chess programming in the early 70s?

Mark




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