Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 14:30:35 04/20/98
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On April 20, 1998 at 07:05:16, Karsten Bauermeister wrote: >Hi Christophe, > >Boris Diplomat (I + II) were cheaper versions of the 1978 Boris in the >nice wodden case. The program was nearly identical to Boris. I suppose, >due to the very small depth search (max 8 Ply, at 3 min/move about 4 >ply), the program has maximal 8 KB. >That this very small program should be a version of a Slate-program >seems strange, but not impossible. > >Karsten About Boris I know that it came out in October of 1978, made by the Munich situated firm named Sandy Electronic. It was a precursor of Fritz 4 and 5 in that it had 83 (!!!) comments on the positions that appeared on its alphanumeric LED (Dazzling, Spot me a Queen, You missed the mate in 6...). The author may have been Slate, but it's beyond my ken... Anyway, another curiosity: Boris appeared in a crime-serial *Tatort* on German TV on November 29, 1979, when one of the characters, the detective, was shown with Boris set up on the table in front of him... Boris Master, beginning March 1979, hat a set of batteries that supplied a 7-hour-playing stretch and it was the first chess computer that could hold the unfinished game in memory. Those were the days... Regards, Djordje
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