Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:29:34 04/13/04
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On April 13, 2004 at 12:47:46, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 13, 2004 at 12:23:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 13, 2004 at 12:19:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>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. >> >> >>That was not the whole story. In 1977 we played in 3 events. the first was the >>WCCC in Toronto. That did use blitz V as version 6 was not ready. We didn't >>physically attend the ACM event as it was in Seattle Washington (IIRC) and we >>could not make two trips in one year for chess. I operated blitz at Hattiesburg >>and talked with an operator at the tournament site. The tournament bulletin was >>copied from the WCCC info, but it was incorrect as we had changed from V to 6... >> >>The third event was the labor day test human tournament I mentioned. > >But you at least increased regurarly the version number. I'm at diep version >2.05 currently :) I only changed on complete re-writes. :) There were 6 total from scratch versions of blitz, plus one from scratch version of Crafty... Also remember that version 1 was circa 1968, version 6 was circa 1977. Things used to change quickly...
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