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Subject: Re: Who is the incredible author of Zappa chess program?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 07:38:12 03/20/03

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On March 19, 2003 at 19:10:28, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>What style!  What brillancy! This program can beat weak engines like Fritz while
>running on a Commodore 64!!
>
>;)

Thank you very much for the praise. I worked very hard on it during my lunch
break  for about two weeks using an old Commodore 64 I found in the wastebin. I
work for the city sanitation department - i.e. I'm a garbage man. This is why it
was written for it. I am now planning on porting it to the Apple II though this
may require a further two weeks, more if I can't find one easily in a wastebin.
I should mention that despite its remarkable result of 100-0 against Fritz, part
of the reason is that Fritz refused to execute any moves, which in turn could
also be because I could not get it to run on the Commodore either. So it was
100-0 by WO. I'll post its further spectacular results against other top SSDF
programs soon.

                                        Frank Zappa



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