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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