Author: Joshua Lee
Date: 00:05:16 07/04/01
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>>>Based on the following I doubt very highly you will ever find a "new" game with >>>these programs. >>> >>>Hitech ran on special hardware >>> >>>Nuchess ran on a Cray-1 supercomputer and searched at about 6Kns. Not to many >>>people own one. >> >>They wanted a Cray, but i don't think they ever got one, and had to run on a >>lesser machine. I am pretty sure it was written in Fortran (probably Fortran 66 >>or something similar). If so, it shouldn't be all that difficult to port it to a >>modern PC. All the other programs you mention are either assembler language, or >>special hardware, so they would be very hard to get going now. >> >>>Belle ran on a LSI 11/23 mainframe combined with a special chess processor and >>>searched at about 110Kns. I believe this machine is in the smithsonian. >> >>Mostly correct. Except that calling an LSI 11/23 a mainframe would make anyone >>who has seen one laugh. And anyone who has actually used one would laugh even >>louder. LSI 11/23 was a microcomputer, and a very old and slow one at that. >> >>>Chess 4.9 is a previous version of Nuchess. >>Some of the same people were involved, and the programming ideas were mostly >>similar, but Nuchess was a complete rewrite. Chess 4.9 was CDC6600 assembler. >>Nuchess was Fortran. > > >Not exactly. At every ACM event you saw "nuchess" playing in, it was playing >on a Cray. I was using a cray at the time and helped them make arrangements >to use one in the same lab I was getting time from... > >I don't recall _any_ ACM event (NACCC or WCCC) they played in using anything >but a Cray (nuchess program). > >Bob Well if this isn't too possible is there a more interesting match to see between the older programs vs the new ones? I would like to see a match but it seems as though almost everybody used special hardware which is no longer available and as far as i know Crafty not many authors are still working on some kind of incarnation of their mainframe program except Crafty. If someone set's something up please let me know.
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