Author: Graham Laight
Date: 15:40:05 05/25/01
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On May 25, 2001 at 09:41:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Far be it for me to come between your country and its trophies - but... just one little question... if one claims to be the strongest, ought one not to play more than one opponent? :) -g >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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