Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:00:29 05/16/01
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On May 16, 2001 at 12:12:15, Joshua Lee wrote: >>>All i could find about this one so far is that COKO III was written in FORTRAN >>>IV and had been executed on IBM 7044, 360/50, 65, 91 PDP 10, UNIVAC 1108 and >>>the B5500/6500. also The Marsland Chess Program. I am sure i will end up finding >>>some other hardware to ask about so look out for my posts i will use the same >>>name. Thankyou >> >> >>Ed Kozdrowicki sent me a copy of the source code for Coko IV, about 80,000 >>lines of Fortran. It was the second source program I saw (other than mine) >>and played with. It was lost 20+ years ago unfortunately. I also had a >>copy of the greenblatt program source (dec assembly language) but it was also >>lost many years ago. > >I am glad you brought these up because i was going to ask if any of the older >programs still exist, If anybody has Pioneer, NUCHESS/Chess4.9, Kassia, >Chaos,Belle, Hitech etc. There are a few old ones i would like to see on todays >fastest hardware. Also Everybody wants to play with deep thought what can be >done with that sorce code from the winboard site? Some would be difficult. IE Chess 4.x was written in CDC assembly language (Compass). Belle was built around special-purpose hardware which would mean it would be impossible to use without it. Hitech was the same. Pioneer never existed (this was Botvinnik's program and it never played a single game). Nuchess was written in fortran. Slate almost certainly has a copy of this laying around. Whether he will give it away is another question but I would suspect he would. Kaissa was written in a high-level language, but I don't recall if it was FORTRAN or something like ALGOL. Deep Thought had special hardware. The software on the winboard site is simply a program used to tune its evaluation parameters. Didn't work for DB1 or DB2 as the evaluations were much more complex.
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