Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 16:29:23 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 18:36:18, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On January 29, 1999 at 12:55:41, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >- snip - > >> >>There was an excellent book in Russian :-) "Games programming", >>written by Kaissa authors. That idea was presented there as >>well - I first time read about it there. Book was published >>in the end of 1970s, if I remember it correctly (have not >>brought it with me to the US). >> >>Eugene > >What happened to the Kaissa team? >They had some interesting ideas. >//Peter Last time I saw Donskoy and Bitman in 1992 or so. I think that Donskoy was the only member of the original team who worked on Kaissa. At that time he was not interested in participation in any tournaments -- my interpretation is that Kaissa had a name, and he didn't want to risk it. At that time Donskoy lacked resources, so Kaissa became the typical hobby project. Of course he had huge experience, but to go forward you need fast computers, good access to others' works (e.g. to the journals - and that was hard before 1991 or so), and *a lot of time*. Donskoy had a lot of other things to do - his regular job, then he wrote columns in Russian computer journals, etc. I think that Kaissa had much less important for him than CB/Crafty for Bob. And with rapid hardware progress you have to constantly improve sotfware to better utilize available RAM and CPU speed. I beleive that Kaissa was "Chess 4.x"-like program before Chess 4.x was written. It's a pity that Iron curtain (and language barrier) did not allow to present Kaissa materials when they were new. I'll ask to send their book to me, so I can look at it again (please remind me in ~3 months). Eugene Once again - that's only my own recollections and opinion.
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