Author: Steve B
Date: 18:50:29 10/31/05
The Netherlands is a small country with a population of about 16 million Well known as a chess loving country ,their impact in chess in General from World Champion Max Euwe,Jan Timman and the great modern day writers of Hans Ree,JH Donner (a GM) and Tim Krabbe alone would be more then enough for most countries but when one stops to think of Holland's impact on Computer chess and in Dedicated Chess computers it really is astonishing perhaps most well know are the Programmers Johann de Koinig and Ed Schroder de Koinig of Chessmaster Fame and Schroder of Rebel and Pro Deo fame both however were also World Champion Dedicated chess computer programmers with Schroder owning the 1992 World Title(Mephisto Risc 2-1MB) and of course de Koinig capturing and holding the title from 1993 to 2005 with the Tasc R30/R40 units the Tasc Company of course was also a Dutch Company today the title of worlds strongest computer goes to the Phoenix Resurrection invented by Ruud Martin also a Dutchman and soon.. a World Class Dutch Collector will publish a Chronology of all dedicated chess computers released ,containing release dates by month and year and containing detailed information such as Processor,Clock speed ROM,RAM ..etc..etc i have seen small glimpses of this truly historical work which took years in the making and all of this..from one small country Best Steve
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