Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 21:48:23 02/02/02
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Absolutely agree. There were several reasons for the lack of strong chess programs in the USSR, and lack of good computers is one of them. But my point is: Soviet computer chess did not die with the communist system. There just was nothing to die. Eugene On February 02, 2002 at 22:28:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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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