Author: Jeroen Noomen
Date: 00:46:30 03/15/03
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On March 14, 2003 at 14:52:48, Johan Havegheer wrote: Hi Johan, Yes, that was one of the most remarkable cheats in the history of computer chess! I recall this one very well, because I was in Portoroz myself. Mr. Langer was, however, quickly caught by the Mephisto team. I was a member of the Mephisto team in Portoroz and after a few rounds we found some facts very strange: 1. We had never heard of mr. Langer before. 2. Asking him questions, he didn't seem to know anything about chess or computer chess. 3. During the games he was watching everything, except the computerscreen. He didn't seem to be interested in the games at all. 4. A quick glance at his IO showed that the contents of this were exactly the same as Mephisto's. 5. We replayed Quickstep's games on a regular Alermia 32 bit machine and discovered that almost all the moves were identical. At last we informed the ICCA about it and mr. Langer was requested to show the source code of Quickstep. He didn't and so his program was disqualified. We never heard of him anymore :-). Jeroen >I remember Portoroz 1989. There was A certain Klaus Dieter Langer who >participated with Quick Step. In round 8 they found out he copied Richard Lang's >Almeria version into some faster hardware (68030 35Mhz) > >regards >Johan Havegheer
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