Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 14:40:05 04/03/01
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On April 03, 2001 at 17:14:05, Mark Loftus 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... > >Was Chess 0.9 the source code or the full program? In Oct -78 until Jan -79 they (Peter Frey and Larry Atkins) published a series of articles in BYTE called "Creating a Chess Player". Included in the articles the Chess 0.5, a Pascal source code, was presented by Larry Atkins. Of course inspired by Chess 4.6 but not the real thing! //Peter
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