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Subject: Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:28:59 02/02/02

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On February 01, 2002 at 17:38:06, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>Pioneer never played a game in the any match or tournament. It's urban legend.
>
>I have my thoughts about Centaur, and quick summary is: it's not better than
>even my chess program (Siberian Chess). Certainly it was not in the league of
>the leading chess programs of the day (Fritz 3, Chess Genious, Rebel, etc. on
>micro; DT, CB on the "big iron").
>
>Never heard anything about Dragon. Even if it was not worse than programs
>mentioned above, there is hard fact: there was huge country that claimed to be
>superpower and had good universities and military research. Results of all that
>were not visible in the computer chess fields, with sole exception of KAISSA
>several decades ago.
>
>Eugene


You left off one very important detail.  The former Soviet Union was a
technologically backward country.  They had _no_ computer manufacturing
facilities of any kind.  They considered the piece-of-junk ICL 4/70 as
a "hot box" for example.  :)

That always gave Botvinnik a wonderful excuse however...  "we don't have any
decent computing hardware to use for our development so we can't make any
real progress..."




>
>On February 01, 2002 at 13:46:40, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On January 31, 2002 at 18:40:27, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>
>>>Do you saw strong chess programs (other than KAISSA, that diead around 1977)
>>>from the communist contries before fall of communism?
>>>
>>>Eugene
>>
>>
>>i don't see your point.
>>
>>what about pioneer ?
>>what about dragon ?
>>what about centaur ?
>>
>>blown with the wind.
>>
>>
>>glasnost and perestroika !



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