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Subject: Re: #### WHO AUTHORED THE ORIGINAL GNUCHESS? John !

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:02:11 03/26/04

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On March 26, 2004 at 09:53:47, David Mitchell wrote:

>On March 26, 2004 at 09:39:43, David Mitchell wrote:
>
>>
>>That would be Stuart, IIRC.
>>
>>dave
>
>Sorry, make that John. From the Kiss Chess file/Generic C Chess file:
>
>"Written by John Stanback (Author of Zarkov & first GNUChess)"
>
>Just not eating enough fish, maybe. :)

There may have been some sort of "unofficial" GnuChess written by Stuart, as I
have seen conflicting answers on the internet.

One site said that version 1 was Stuart, versions 2-4 were John, and version 5+
Stuart again.

The first one I ever saw (in 1988) was written by John Stanback.  It had no
version numbers in it.

Back in those days, my favorite engine was something called "EdChess" and I
played a sort of corresondence chess with it.  I would have the engine think all
night on a position, and go and look at what it did in the morning.  When I came
home from work, I would give it my response and let it think all night again.
It ran on a 286 and did it's own screen updating.  (I had a Hercules Graphics
card and so everything was orange.)



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