Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 15:00:31 01/05/06
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Hello Rolf, In 1982, was that not also in the time of Botwinnik and his Pioneer chessprogram? Botwinnik also started his program to solve some very special positions, taken from his own games of course. Pioneer could solve these positions even faster than Botwinnik himself and for him it was clear this was the way to go, to make the ultimate chess champion. But he did not have access to any modern computers, not even a simple IBM PC that was just coming available in the west. The big computers that he used in Moscow were meant to calculate the needed coal and energy supplies I believe to keep Russian feet warm in the freezing winter. Programming for chess only in his spare time, Pioneer never made it into a real chess playing program, as far as I know. It is a pity that Botwinnik could not make use of some modern chess sources to start with, he could also be a very methodical man and could have made something really special, if he had found a method for programming his own ideas to make chess programs stronger. Eelco
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