Author: David Blackman
Date: 00:48:27 06/28/01
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On June 28, 2001 at 00:21:30, Joshua Lee wrote: >What did the programmers involved go on to do? Are their programs available? I did a websearch on some of the Kaissa programmers a while back and turned up only a few computer chess history pages. If they have web pages of their own they are hiding from the search engines well. I guess they would be in Russian anyway. It's also worth noting that the Kaissa team would be getting quite old now, and perhaps some of them are dead. I vaguely remember reading they had trouble getting computer access for chess purposes in the mid 1970s. That might not have improved until affordable micros with reasonable power reached Russia (circa 1988?). I think Ostrich was Monty Newborn's. He was and maybe still is Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. He doesn't seem to have his own web page at the University. He was publishing academic papers, including some about computer chess, until recently. I don't remember hearing about him having a program competing anywhere since the 1980s. I think both of these old programs were in assembly language. To run them you would most likely need a very old computer (IBM 360 compatible mainframe for Kaissa, was it some kind of Honeywell for Ostrich?). The programs were most likely stored on a large deck of punched cards. I'm not sure if anyone would have bothered to store them for such a long time after the computers were obsolete. Think of several thousand punched cards and the space needed to store them.
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