Author: Michael Watters
Date: 02:49:10 12/21/04
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On December 20, 2004 at 19:42:57, Ismenio Sousa wrote: >On December 20, 2004 at 11:46:40, Michael Watters wrote: > >>One day I intend to do a Timeline/Family Tree of Chess Computers as one of my >>interests is their early development. >> >(...) >I've been wanting to do that Mike! Let me know when you have it! If you're OK >with that I'd like to share it in a public page, of course giving you the >credit. I shall try to do most of it over the Christmas holidays :), during the boring bits :( We shall share the credit because I will be relying on you Ismenio and Steve to correct my mistakes and omissions which will probably be numerous. I have to live down the "Professor" tag :)) With the information I have I can probably do the early years OK and I will rely on nearly 20 years worth of Selective Searches (Eric Hallsworth's publication) for dating the rest. >I've been trying to find that like crazy! And I have a question on that. >Were/are the computer chess released in any standard fashion? For example, the >ones by Excalibur, are they released in the US first or England, Canada, etc. >like other products? Is there really an "official" release date by the >manufacturer? I feel confident in saying that no chess computer was ever released in England first. And I cannot remember any being available when the manufacturer/retailers led us to believe it would be either. Digressing, in the old days of computer software it sometimes seemed to be the case that a company would announce a new piece of software, sit back and wait to see how much interest it created, then if there was enough, figure out if he could actually create this new masterpiece. At times the chess computer scene seemed like that. At least in England it did. The situation is very different these days and maybe, just maybe the companies have reliable release dates.
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