Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:18:20 08/07/03
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On August 07, 2003 at 15:08:19, Uri Blass wrote:
>On August 07, 2003 at 14:56:31, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>On August 07, 2003 at 13:33:21, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>except developing chess systen tal.
>>>
>>>I thought that this guy left computer chess and in the time that he was involved
>>>in it he did not help other people by advices but I read in
>>>http://www.math.uio.no/~romstad/gothmog/gothmog.html that he was one of the
>>>people who helped the author in the developement of gothmog or by direct advice
>>>or by through explanation of his algorithms and data structures, or by
>>>publishing his source code.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Chris Whittington has done a lot of creative work in computer chess. And even
>>then when he was being sarcastic and "rebellious" he contributed to this Forum
>>with his ideas.
>
>I did not know it.
>I joined to the forum only after he left and I knew him mainly as a trouble
>maker.
>
>There was a time when I discussed about ideas in his forum and at some stage he
>decided to delete all of the posts there.
>I know that he did not release his source code and
>I do not remember through explanation of his algorithms and data structures and
>talking about ideas is not the same.
>
> His greatest contribution is, of course, his excellent program
>>Chess System Tal which is going to be unique in the computer chess world for
>>years to come. Thus your heading that you are surprised to read, etc. does not
>>make ANY sense to me. Bear in mind that he wrote a very good chess program for
>>the Spectrum Sinclar computer back then when you may not have been born, in
>>1983. Sorry, but I am just guessing what your age is...
>>
>>Djordje
>
>You guess wrong but it is not important.
>I did not know that he wrote a chess program in 1983 and I never heard of the
>spectrum sinclar computer.
This is outrageous. You never heard of the Super Duper 16 Kb Ram COLOR Spectrum
Sinclair???? What about the younger brother, the ZX-81 with 1 Kb Ram! (not an
exagerration) Tsk, tsk, tsk......
Albert
>
>Uri
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