Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 12:36:47 07/15/04
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On July 15, 2004 at 13:21:48, Martin Slowik wrote: >Whoops, > >lucky me mentioned the name Ed Schroeder only together with the adjective >'talented'... ;-) Didn't know that you're still around, still being interested >in computer chess. Being retired from competion and commerce doesn't mean my interest has gone away. >Since I have you here now, if you allow I'd have a question that is nagging me >(and some other folks who are still playing dedicated chess computers). >Hopefully you remember the times of the Risc I and II modules for the Mephistos >roughly... Is there a big difference between the two, i.e. do you remember what >you changed or to what exent in the later program version? There are people >thinking that the first version is even stronger than the second, do you believe >this is possible? The Risc-II is 40-50 elo points stronger. I still know it because the difference was just one instruction. >>The USCF has about 50,000-60,000 paying members which is quite low if you >>compare that to pinhead Holland which has about 30,000. > >Well, I intentionally didn't mention Fischer and the popularity of chess in the >US, since I think that this is alomst an exception to the 'Becker-effect'. Okay, >in the first years Bobby did attract many people but I think the effect would >have been bigger or have lasted longer in almost any other country. Perhaps this >is due to the cultural differences between Europe and America: if you can't earn >a lot of money with a sport/game it gets dropped very quickly by the people >(even though Fischer changed the salaries of the pros in a very significant way >- alas it's not comparable to the salaries of basketball players). ;-) > >>>in Holland the answer must be related to Euwe... >> >>Obviously. But chess was already quite popular here. > >Yes, and I think even the extent nowadays is astonishing. >But what I don't get is the lack of russian chess engine programmers. They have >both, excellent chess players and very good programmers - but so far no top >engine if I'm not mistaken. I agree, the lack off Russian chess programmers is unexplainable. My best, Ed
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