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Subject: Re: Who's the highest rated chess programmer?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:50:15 08/22/02

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On August 22, 2002 at 07:20:10, Yuriy Lyapko wrote:

>On August 22, 2002 at 03:54:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2002 at 22:51:16, Jason Williamson wrote:
>>
>>>Well, there is Botvinik....
>>
>>He was not a chess programmer.
>>Chess programmer is a programmer who wrote a playing chess program.
>>
>>I do not know about a playing chess program of botvinik.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Wrong. He was a member of a team which made one of the first ever chess programs
>named Caissa (it was even Machine World Champion if I recall well)...
>
>George


Kaissa was the 1974 WCCC champion (first time it was held).  However, I
don't remember Botvinnik being on that team.  He was on the Pioneer team
for sure, but Pioneer never played a game in public and is generally
considered to be mostly a hoax.



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