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Subject: Collector's Corner..On The Impact Of A Small Nation

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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