Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 18:40:10 01/16/02
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Donskoy ported Kaissa to PC (I believe it was rewritten in C, but I am not sure, as I talked with him more than 10 yesrs ago). In 1991 there was first (and last) Soviet Computer Chess Championship; Donskoy came there, was unhappy with the rules, prizes, etc., and went away. I think the real resaon was that he had nothing to gain in this amateurish event, but something to lose. I just made quick Internet search, and it looks that he went into business. Look at www.disco.ru. According to http://www.disco.ru/english/company/ "1988 — The software developers group that is now the backbone of DISCo, was organized by Misha Donskoy for developing an IBM PC version of the KAISSA chess program (whose mainframe version was the First World Computer Chess Champion in 1974). This program took 4-th place in London's Computer Olympiad in 1990." Eugene On January 16, 2002 at 18:00:35, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 16, 2002 at 17:01:48, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>I was searching my database and found that your program played Kaissa and i >>wanted to know if you could tell me about dome of the details impressions etc >>How would Kaissa do on faster hardware . >> >> >>Kaissa - COMP Ferret [D86] >>-, 1995 >> >>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 0-0 8.Ne2 Nc6 >>9.0-0 b6 10.f4 Na5 11.Bd3 c5 12.Be3 c4 13.Bc2 Bb7 14.f5 e5 15.d5 Qd6 16.Qd2 Rad8 >>17.Bh6 Bxh6 18.Qxh6 Rfe8 19.f6 Qf8 20.Qh4 Qc5+ 21.Kh1 Qe3 22.Rf3 Qd2 23.Rd1 >>Qxd1+ 24.Bxd1 h5 25.Qg5 Rd6 26.Qh6 Rxf6 27.Rxf6 b5 28.Ng3 Rd8 29.Bxh5 Rxd5 >>30.exd5 Bxd5 31.Bxg6 Nb7 32.Nf5 Bxg2+ 33.Kxg2 1-0 >> >> >>Kaissa - COMP Ferret [D87] >>-, 1995 >> >>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 0-0 8.Ne2 c5 >>9.0-0 Nc6 10.Be3 Bg4 11.f3 Na5 12.Bb3 cxd4 13.cxd4 Bd7 14.Rb1 b6 15.Bc2 Rc8 >>16.Rf2 Nc4 17.Bc1 a6 18.e5 b5 19.Ng3 f5 20.a4 bxa4 21.Bxa4 Bxa4 22.Qxa4 Qxd4 >>23.f4 Qd3 24.Rb7 Nxe5 25.fxe5 Rxc1+ 26.Nf1 Bxe5 27.Rxe7 Rxf1+ 0-1 > > >This has to be some sort of typo. Kaissa last played at the 1977 world >computer chess championship so far as I know. I don't recall seeing them >after that event. That is a tad prior to Ferret's time. :)
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