Author: Keith Evans
Date: 09:00:40 05/05/05
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On May 05, 2005 at 11:56:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 05, 2005 at 00:01:48, Keith Evans wrote: > >>On May 03, 2005 at 16:40:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On May 03, 2005 at 04:06:35, Jouni Uski wrote: >>> >>>>I just watched 19 minutes video from Hydra site. It claims, that Ken Thomson >>>>is father of Hydra! Really?? I doubt a lot... >>>> >>>>Jouni >>> >>> >>>"Belle". >>> >>>Hydra's design is based on "belle" just like deep thought/deep blue was as >>>well... >> >>Shouldn't Joe Condon get a mention? > > >Certainly... he had just specifically asked about Ken, which is what I >responded to. I don't think Joe was into "chess" at all. He was an engineer >that helped ken put things together from an engineering perspective, not from a >chess perspective. I was always curious about what Condon contributed, versus what Ken contributed. For example the Belle move generator was a clever idea, and it seems like nobody has come up with a radically different and better method for a purely hardware design. I wonder who came up with the idea? Ken Thompson or Joe Condon. Any idea? -Keith
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