Author: Mike S.
Date: 10:21:10 08/01/02
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On August 01, 2002 at 09:44:42, Jonathan Lee wrote: >>After all Rich Lang borrowed from Fidelity to improved his Genius program back >>in circa 1992. >I have no idea about what you mean here. I don't think it's true. Lang had >nothing to do with Fidelity, at any time IIRC. > Christophe >I just emailed to Ronald Nelson; I will give his words verbatim by using copy & >paste to move into this forum. >I can recall correctly that this historic rating change from 2325 USCF to 2424 >USCF came from this convergance of two chess softwares. The software, IOW. the programs themselves certainly have never been mixed in any way. Maybe this is a misunderstanding, because the Mephisto company had bought Fidelity, and there were one computer where you could *switch* between a Spracklen and a Lang program. I think it was in an Avantgarde wood case (I don't know anything about the USCF rating increase you mention). Btw. Richard Lang's top programs were *always* stronger than the best Fidelity's and won every year's WCh from 1985 to 1992 IIRC; he really wasn't in need to borrow something from them... Lang also worked on Motorola 680x0 16Bit CPUs much earlier, while Fidelity still used 6502 8Bit CPUs for some years. OTOH, Fidelity was the first to release a commerical chess computer using hash tables. Those programs were always *very* different. Regards, M.Scheidl
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