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Subject: Re: What is the first chess program that won a master under tournament cont?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:46:32 05/07/99

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On May 07, 1999 at 17:48:48, vitor wrote:
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>this is off topic, but why didnt you ever try making a hardware version cray
>blitz? or is that some future project? it seems cray blitz was always up against
>hardware programs like belle ,hitech, deep thought.
Of those machines, only deep thought had dedicated chess circuits.  The others
were general purpose machines, running a computer program.  Just like Cray
Blitz.  Cray Blitz was more than a match for all except Deep Thought, which had
specialized hardware.

Why didn't Dr. Hyatt write special hardware circuits?  That would be a pretty
expensive hobby.



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