Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 06:57:26 04/19/98
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On April 19, 1998 at 07:53:46, blass uri wrote: > >On April 19, 1998 at 07:16:28, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On April 19, 1998 at 05:33:56, Georg Langrath wrote: >> >>>It has always fascinated me that women are so uninterested in >>>computerchess. Is it build in to the y-chromosome? When I was member of >>>SSDF I think that there wasn’t any woman as member. After all there are >>>woman that play chess on a very high level. Is there any woman reading >>>this message? > >does someone know >about a woman who developed a chess program? >> >>Important for males is that a computer a button to power-off. >>Women are not interested in fighting against machines. They don't >>need to win because they have no lack of self-confidence. > >I am a man and >I do not see chess as a game of fighting but as a game of logic. > >I do not see relation between to be interested in computerchess >and self-confidence. Look above "Does someone know about a woman who developed a chess program"? Yes indeed. Dan and Kathy Spracklen wrote chess programs for Fidelity once. For example "Mach lll". But it was together with her husband. Nobody knows who of them did what. Georg
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