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Subject: was Socrates3 (or whatever version) really a successor of the

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 00:38:52 05/18/05


Kaplan 8-Bit dedicated chess computers.

The last versions of the 8-Bit dedicated chess computer machines of Saitek,
known as

Leonardo
Galileo
Renaissance

+

Maestro
Analyst


D  6/8/10 mhz

were really promising.

We got experimental versions we named D+ and D++.

Then Saitek stopped the project and came with the sparc module.

And later the PC-Program Socrates came on the market.

I wonder why it plays IMO so different then the kaplan 8-Bit chess programs.

It does not have (IMO) the style of the dedicated chess computers.

Can it be that Socrates was more or less a work of Daily etc.
than a transformation of the 8-Bit chess programs into PC ?

Anybody knows ?

what happened to heuristic software and the chess programs of julio kaplan ?






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