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Subject: Re: Richard says: CYRUS was not written by me.

Author: José Carlos

Date: 11:10:17 04/05/04

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On April 05, 2004 at 05:40:23, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>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:
>
>[snip]
>
>>The Cyrus that I wrote ran on the Z80 processor but not on the Intel 80x86.
>
>
>I always thought it was that Cyrus on the Z80 when people mentioned it. Gosh I
>feel old now. :) I had Cyrus for the Amstrad CPC464 back then. The 2D-board was
>very nice and smooth. I loved to play tons of blitz games against it and back
>then I even had chances to win a game once in a while. I wish I could play that
>now under a CPC-emulator for Linux/Mac. :)
>
>Sargon (name comes from SargonIII for the Amiga - my most favourite engine)

  Damn, getting old here too!
  I had Cyrus on the Amstrad, and also Colossus 4.0 and Masterchess and 3D Voice
Chess and... I think I had one or two more...
  I even wrote a chess program back then in BASIC. It shouldn't be called
exactly a chess program 'cause it didn't play legal chess. I recall the first
time I played it: f1b5+ ...thinking... e8e9!!

  José C.



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