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Subject: Re: Meaningless Underpromotions

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 08:47:29 08/12/99

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On August 11, 1999 at 09:21:53, Ratko V Tomic wrote:

>Botvinnik (among a few) had the right idea on structuring
>the decision making and at which level the chess knowledge
>and reasoning should go. Unfortunately, his hardware was
>much slower and had less RAM and disk than my kids' spelling
>checkers or "game boys", so they couldn't implement it well.
>(His dull exposition style didn' help either in bringing in
>others with resources.) Hopefully someone will eventually
>pick up where he left off.

I think the slow hardware thing is just an excuse.  That project went on for
such a long time, and produced so little, that it's hard to imagine how it could
have been something other than a complete fraud.

bruce



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