Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:18:17 04/13/04
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On April 13, 2004 at 09:04:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 12, 2004 at 16:04:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 12, 2004 at 15:39:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On April 12, 2004 at 15:30:31, Matthew Hull wrote: >>> >>>>On April 12, 2004 at 15:07:15, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>> >>>>>I found a copy of a modified Cray blitz. >>>> >>>> >>>>I don't think Blitz IV is "Cray" blitz, since that had optimized Cray assembler >>>>mixed in. This seems to be earlier than that. >>> >>>Yes, it is something quite old. Dr Hyatt estimated mid 70's as I recall. >> >> >>Just checked my old ACM stuff. blitz version 6 played in 1977 and beyond. >>Version 5 (V) played im 75-76. Version 4 goes back to 73-74 approximately... > >ACM 1977 you joined with blitz V according to the tournament report i could >find. We barely got the "exhaustive" version (version 6) completed and chose to run that at the last minute. In fact, we ran it in a human event over the US Labor Day weekend and it played well enough that we decided to use it even though it played its first game in early September with the ACM event being in October.
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