Author: stegner, jamie
Date: 05:16:40 04/04/04
Contrary to our popular(or professional?) belief, CYRUS(1985) was NOT written by Richard Lang(Genius). He says. Here's an e-mail from Richard, posted as i previously promised to him to do so: ps) stuart cracraft(GnuChess, the original authour)'s new e-mail address: cracraft@cox.net Then I wonder: Who made CYRUS's rotatable 3D board? * * * From: "ChessGeniusSupport" <support@chessgenius.com> Add to Address Book To: ________________________________ Subject: Re: WANTED: Info on your CYRUS Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 09:20:31 +0100 ___________, The Cyrus PC program was not written by me. My first chess program was called Cyrus. After it won a tournament I started work with a company called "Intelligent Software" in 1981 and sold Cyrus to them. The Cyrus that I wrote ran on the Z80 processor but not on the Intel 80x86. In 1985 I was working with Hegener+Glaser and had no connection to Intelligent Software. Regards, Richard Lang www.chessgenius.com ----- Original Message ----- From: _______________________ To: <richard@chessgenius.com> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 1:22 PM Subject: WANTED: Info on your CYRUS > WANTED....info on "CYRUS" > > Dear Richard, > > I have some questions regarding your CYRUS. > > It's one of few freeware chess program avaiable in 3D > board. Its playing strength is quite impressive > considering it was born in 1985. And no one can't > forget the unique, soft sound PC speaker makes when a > piece moves. Just watching program v program matches > by pressing "p" was - and still is - also inspiring. > > It was posted in the early-90s by someone on the net > (i.e. U pittsberg ftp) w/o any documentation . If > memory serves me right, I've read a short article > about the program in a computer magazine in 1994 or > so. > > It's mysterious that such a strong and good-looking > program was not updated and abandoned(?) as freeware. > > 1. Was it originally commercial-ware? > > 2. Is it ILLEGAL that many web sites thesedays list > CYRUS as downloadable? > > 3. Is there any doc file describing CYRUS's > programming method? > > > Best // Thx in advance // Jamie > > PS) If you let me know, I'd like to post your valuable > answers on www.talkchess.com, a m'ship-based forum, > dedicated to computerchess programming and related > issues.
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