Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:09:11 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 23:04:30, Mike Byrne wrote: > an interesting read, my own chess initiation followed these lines: > >1972 - Followed everygame of the Spasski - Fischer match - move by move - games >used to be adjourned in those days - so often the game moves ended at 40 , and >you had to pick where you left off the next day. There we no PC's then - at >least to my knowledge. > >This may surprising to the younger chess folks in the US, but every game of >that match was published in just above US newspaper on the front page with all >the moves. That match was huge in the US, especially with the US/Russian theme >in the height of the cold war. I was 16 and in high school at the time. Still >have my "bookself" chess game made by 3M that I purchased at the time. Nice >little folding wood set in a cardboard box. If Fischer didn't go nuts (yes, I >think he is mentally unstable - chess genius for sure, but not stable IMO), >chess would be a lot bigger today in the US. > >Fast forward to 1978 - saw an ad or Fidelity Chess Challanger 7 in the WSJ for >$99 bucks. I was amazed, purchased one and I have been hooked ever since with >computer chess. > >My current interest now is to replay great games of the past. I also started >collecting Chess Informant books - I am now just 5 books away from collecting >every volume. I started that 20 years ago - but really didn't make the big push >until this past year. One smart thing I did 20 years ago, was to purchased >some of the early volumes as a few of them are now out of print. I also have >every Chess Informant Game published in CB format with complete Informant >annotations - that's cool. Time flies by when reviewing great games of the >past. In addition, I am in the process of putting some very nice game >collections together in CB format, all the most signifcant games, major >tounaments etc over the last 200 years. > >My favorite chess computer is the wood Mephisto 68030 with Genius 2 running at >33 Mhz pn a 68030 chip. In those days (1992), the 68030 33 Mhz was about as >fast as 433(486 chip) 33 Mhz - which were the high end machines at the time >time. ICC was totally free for everybody in those days and I used that Mephisto >68030 under the handle of "fitter" - maually playing the moves over the board >and then entering them on the computer with a mouse - playing 5 3 games and >beating GM's. That was a lot of fun. There were not a lot of computers on ICC >back then and GM/IM's were much more willing to play computers on the internet. >Of course now, that has all changed. Once the 586-P90's came out , Genius 68030 >was no longer competitive. > >Eventually I migrated to crafty and with Bob Hyatt's help, I was soon able to >compile modified versions of crafty on my own. That has always been great >enjoyment and without Bob's work and time, I would never have able to do that. >I can make modifications, but I can't program and Bob would be the first to tell >you I can't program. For me things are the opposite I can program but I never tried to make modifications to crafty. I think that it will be a good idea if there will be some page(or maybe there is) that give instructions step by step how to compile and make modification to crafty. When I say how to compile I do not mean only to have no errors but also to do all the steps for profile optimizations. Uri
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