Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 11:44:29 06/28/01
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On June 28, 2001 at 03:48:27, David Blackman wrote: >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. Some of Kaissa versions were written in Fortran. And Mikhail Donskoy ported it to PC -- at least he had a PC version back in 1991. Don't know on which languuage it was written, and which compiler he used. Eugene
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