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Subject: Re: Cray blitz

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 10:50:04 04/14/04

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On April 14, 2004 at 13:40:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 14, 2004 at 03:13:52, J Battles wrote:
>
>>Isn't that nice.  Some software is still supported after 25-30 years <g>
>
>
>Actually there was a guy on ICC that had taken the old blitz source I sent him
>in the middle 70's,


Maybe he still has the source?


>and he hacked it to use some sort of graphics card his
>company made, but it used the graphics card to execute major parts of the
>search.  IE the graphics card kept the board, did make/unmake/check detection,
>and did evaluation.
>
>It was actually pretty strong as it was very fast.  I think he had "modernized"
>the search to include null-move and so forth and removed the "selectivity"...



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