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Subject: Re: Female chess programmers?

Author: Francisco Salinas

Date: 16:41:00 05/30/05

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On May 30, 2005 at 13:09:34, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>On May 30, 2005 at 12:43:16, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>On May 30, 2005 at 11:59:21, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>>
>>>On May 30, 2005 at 11:01:46, David Dahlem wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 30, 2005 at 10:31:13, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 30, 2005 at 10:21:40, David Dahlem wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>A 23 year old female (Danica Patrick) made history yesterday in the Indy 500
>>>>>>race, for the first time ever a female led several laps, coming very close to
>>>>>>winning the race. This great achievement naturally got me to wondering if there
>>>>>>are there any known female computer chess programmers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Any thoughts or opinions why there are so few, if any, chess engines authored by
>>>>>>females? :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards
>>>>>>Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>Kathe Spracklen (Sargon).
>>>>
>>>>Thanks. This was over 20 years ago, are there any more recent?
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>Dave
>>>
>>>Women never grow old ;)) (khm, khm...)
>>>
>>>Btw, can you beat Sargon?
>>>
>>>Best
>>>Mihaly
>>
>>Probaly not! :-)
>>
>>Btw, will Sargon work on modern computers?

 I think so if you can convert the original assembler code from the z80 to our
current processors. A code, by the way, that you can find here

http://www.madscientistroom.org/chm/Sargon.html

(the online version of the book "Sargon: a Computer Chess Program" written by
Dan and Kathe)






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