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Subject: Re: Who are the sensations in the history of Computer Chess?

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 01:56:32 09/24/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 23:51:26, ludicrous wrote:

>1) HIARCS - An Amateur Program suddenly wins the world championship
>2) Junior - Won the World Championship a few years ago (Junior 4.6?), while
>regarded still an amateur
>3) Tiger - Shot up the SSDF list a few years back, right after its introduction
>4) Ruffian - A newcomer who took all-comers, and beat down some really big name
>programs.   :-)

Cray Blitz - in the late 1970s and early 1980s, this program, which ran on a
Cray (which was the best known brand name for supercomputers at the time), was
sensational. An amateur program - there being clearly no commercial market for
it - it was written by Bob Hyatt.

-g



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