Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 21:23:08 08/20/01
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On August 18, 2001 at 12:18:32, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On August 18, 2001 at 11:20:36, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>Thorsten, >> >>Good game Mr. Czub. >> >> >>Is that the $10,000.00 Mephisto Vancouver unit? Amazing what happened in ten >>years. > >no - it is the normal commercial version, the one you think about was >the 68030 with extra speed. > >the unit 68020 vancouver costed >4598,- DM in a tournament wooden board. > > >it was 1991. > >jeroen noomen wrote an article about mephisto vancouver in >computer schach and spiele. the title was: > >"more knowledge - more power". > > >in vancouver won GIDEON by ed schröder with 6.0 from 7 >on 86010 arm2 doing 32 Mhz (i still have such a card in my pc) > >followed by mchess 5.5. from 7 (mchess on a 486-33 Mhz), >mephisto made 3rd rank on a dedicated chess computer on 68030 >50mhz. > >4th was the king, johan de koning followed by spracklen and hiarcs. > >it was said that jan louwmann invested much testing time to >help ed schroeder for vancouver preparations. > >he said 1300hours !! > [snip] Hello from Vancouver. Ten years ago I wandered into Asia House at the University of British Columbia and saw a computer chess tournament in progress. I noticed signs saying that it was the World Championship, but I really did not know what it was all about. I was more excited about seeing Yasser Seirawan (who came up from Seattle) and Duncan Suttles (the Canadian GM), who were there to observe. It is amazing to think that I probably saw a lot of these famous computer chess people at that time without knowing who they were! It's a small world. Mark
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