Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 21:22:45 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 22:48:59, leonid wrote: >What the game, between the most known one, use the engin created by its >writer? > >I ask this question because, for instance, Chessmaster came to life in 1986 >but was very weak. Later the company bought the engin from somebody and >starting from this moment it became quite strong. I have read, few >years ago, that few strong games use engin wrote by engin writer. It is >just like car, one factory make the car but buys engin from next place. >I would like to know who really wrote its original game completely and >what game use the engin done by the third person. > >Thanks, >Leonid. few notes about Chessmaster engine and Johann from the CM6K user guide. The King In 1987, Johan de Koning (de Koning is Dutch for “The King”) started writing chess programs. The first version of “The King” was running on a 68000 processor, which had been introduced in microcomputers shortly before. Always trying to improve performance, The King was rewritten for the ARM-family of RISC-processors and finally for the Intel 80X86-family. Right at the start The King was given an attractive and enterprising playing style. Unlike many other computer programs, The King actively seeks attacking possibilities and is ready to sacrifice material not only on tactical, but also on positional grounds. Results and playing strength of the program steadily increased, and it’s has been among the world’s strongest ever since 1990. Tasc The development of The King was accompanied by an ever increasing variation of environments that the program is running in-often provided by The Dutch company, Tasc, which specializes entirely on the subject of “chess and computers. ” Tasc publishes interactive chess tutorials, a database program, and chess data on CD-ROM. Tasc maintains a Web site with product information, demo-software, and regular (live) coverage of chess news and tournaments at: http://www.tasc.nl
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