Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 03:11:44 05/06/02
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On May 05, 2002 at 17:17:56, David Dory wrote: >Life happened, I guess. :-))) >Some of them, I'm sure, had personal reasons for retiring, not related to chess. family !! intelligent friends :-)) >In the Spracklins case, the "team" got divorced, and their project with Saitek >was not stunningly profitable. saitek had a problem in this area , yes :-)) remember they did not offer mark uniacke enough 1993 munich when he won championship with a SPARC and saitek had this new SPARC module with the spracklen program into. it would have been the easiest and best idea to buy the champion program, put it into the module and make money selling a championship program. it would have been a super chess computer, like the TASC R30. but eric winkler did not do it. money reasons. shit for us customers. we never got something strong for the leonardo / renaissance boards. shit. >I think Bob and Ed are exceptions, and exceptional. You'll know when Christophe >no longer feels creative - he'll start saying that one's creativity can only >last for just so long! :-) if i would live on guadeluope, i would have problems concentrating on computerchess instead of girls, sun, swimming... one reason germany and netherlands have so many chess programmers is the weather, the lack of sunny beaches and the rainy season. france would have more programmers, when the french girls would not be such a contraproductive thing to computerchess programming. >P.S. Bryant's Colossus was a checker's program. Played against Chinook several >times. Did it play chess also? colossus was a chess program too. wan't it 4 in one later ? whatever. it was a chess program too. but before colossus he sold white knight. i remember my friend alexander and me sitting behind those BBC Acorn and fighting against white knight.
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