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Subject: Re: Historical Question ...

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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