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Subject: Re: Cray blitz

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:19:26 04/13/04

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On April 13, 2004 at 12:18:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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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