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Subject: Re: Second Thoughts respect CM 10º edition

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 16:15:49 06/27/04

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On June 27, 2004 at 16:41:08, steven blincoe wrote:

>>>Sandro
>>
>>It is the first time that I read the name Ulf Rathsman.
>>What is the name of his chess program?
>
>this is a typical problem with young pc chess programmers
>they do not take the time and effort to learn just a little bit about the
>history of PC Chess Pregramming
>
>Ulf Rathsman is one of the pioneer chess programmers from the early days of the
>first dedicated commercial computers
>but al least you take a moment to even ask who he is
>
>Best Steve

Actually he made the program "Dark Horse" for a mainframe computer (don't
remember wich one but he worked at Ericsson at that time) and made a quite good
result in World Computer Chess Chamionship 1977. I got to know him about -79
when he started his plans about programming his first dedicated chess computer.
We lost contact maybe 10 years ago.
/Peter



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