Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:19:26 11/14/01
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On November 14, 2001 at 17:20:04, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On November 14, 2001 at 16:49:44, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>Strongest chess program written by a female?
>
>Maybe Kathy Spracklen {worked with her husband Dan} (Sargon)
>
>I think Stéphane N.B. Nguyen may be female. Author of Jester. Jester is often
>called the strongest Java program.
No, Stéphane is a guy!
Sargon V (or the Mach IV computers) is, as far as I know, the strongest program
written by a woman (actually written with her husband Dan).
Between 1978 and 1984, they had the strongest chess program for microcomputers.
I do not know exactly what was Kathe's part and what was Dan's part. I seem to
remember that Kathe was in charge of strategy (evaluation?) and Dan was doing
the coding. But I guess this is a simplistic way of seeing it.
Christophe
>Vivianca Wirz wrote a program called Caissa. Sounds like a woman's name (but
>it's hard to know with people from other countries).
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