Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:41:28 05/25/01
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On May 25, 2001 at 04:22:37, Graham Laight wrote: >America probably took the lead in the sixties because they were rich enough to >allow their students/professors to do chess programs on expensive machines in >universities. They "held" this lead thru the 70's, and 80's, and even into the 90's. And if you only consider the "strongest" then that claim to fame _still_ resides here at IBM. IE starting at the first ACM event, add up the number of tournaments won by Chess X, Belle, Cray Blitz, HiTech and Deep Thought. There are only a couple of events out of 25 that were not won by that group. If you add in *Socrates, it drops to maybe 2 events. Actually there were over 30 events as every 3rd year there is a WCCC and ACM event. If you are talking about micros-only, I would say "ho hum..." There are also some fast 4-cylinder autos... but most seem to like NASCAR or Formula-1. :) > >Now that computers are cheap and common, the Dutch are ruling the world - and by >a country mile! > >The Dutch people absolutely love mind games - chess programming suits their >national character down to the ground. > >-g > >On May 25, 2001 at 00:34:09, william penn wrote: > >>Does america have the lead, i know that belle was the first master level chess >>computer and americans are the pioneers of computer chess.
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