Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:06:13 11/02/05
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On October 31, 2005 at 21:50:29, Steve B wrote:
>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
You are overlooking the World Correspondence Champion Gert Jan Timmermann, who
won the 15th WC in 2002, and the 2nd place winner, also Dutch, Joop van
Oosterom. :-)
Albert
>
>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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