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Subject: Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 14:42:06 03/06/02

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>The program wasn't written by the Spracklens, someone else maybee remember who
>was the programmer.

I looked it up on Kurt's wonderful site on tabletop chess computers at
http://www.brettschachcomputer.de/  It states the author was R. C. Nelson

                                       Albert

> They began with Sargon1 for TRS-80.
>>
>>the search went from ply 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5.
>>
>>todays chess program make a one ply search, than they make a 2 ply search.
>>than they make a 3 ply search. as far as i know.
>>
>>the best thing is the display that it computes.
>
>It was able to solve most but not all mate in 2 and a few mate in 3!
>
>Bertil

• Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Christophe Theron 19:31:33 03/06/02
  • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Rich Van Gaasbeck 10:01:13 03/07/02
    • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Roy Eassa 13:18:56 03/07/02
  • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Fernando Villegas 07:24:42 03/07/02
    • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Rich Van Gaasbeck 10:11:45 03/07/02
      • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Fernando Villegas 13:06:09 03/07/02
    • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Roy Eassa 09:58:38 03/07/02
      • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Fernando Villegas 13:07:38 03/07/02

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