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Subject: Re: Odesta

Author: Len Spencer

Date: 17:55:46 06/28/98

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On June 28, 1998 at 12:25:34, Heiko Mikala wrote:

>
>On June 28, 1998 at 07:50:46, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>Actually, I believe to know what Odesta might refer to.  None other than good
>>ole Chess 7.0 (Apple II, Commodore) by David Slate. I used to have it on a
>>Commodore 64, on a 5.25" disk, and I was impressed by it at that time (must have been 1983...).
>
>Is this true? A successor of David Slates famous Chess 4.5 program was sold
>commercially a few years ago? For the Commodore 64??? If only I would have known
>that...
>I guess most of us chess programmers (at least of the younger ones :-) started
>reading L. Atkin and D. Slates article about Chess 4.5. And learned very very
>much of it.
>
>Maybe I should again look for a C-64 emulator on the internet and then search
>for Chess 7.0....
>
>Heiko.

I have the Atari 800 version, and the name on the package is actually Larry
Atkin.  I recall the Checkers program that Odesta released having David Slate's
name on the box though.



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