Author: Eduard Nemeth
Date: 06:01:57 04/04/04
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Read an Interview with Richard Lang here:
http://www.beepworld.de/members57/playchess/genius7.htm
6) a complete as possible, chronical list of your commercial chess
programs including release year, platform and programming language?
(please Richard, it would be GREAT) Here goes!
"Hope I have not missed too many out. Some of the dates may not be exact.
Programs released whilst I worked for "Intelligent Software"
Cyrus for Sinclair Z80 Assembly language 1981"
etc...
Fallow text, read on the Homepage site (English/german).
Eduard.
On April 04, 2004 at 08:16:40, stegner, jamie wrote:
>
>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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