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Subject: Re: chess programer

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:29:44 11/08/99

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On November 08, 1999 at 14:23:15, Howard Exner wrote:

>On November 08, 1999 at 13:39:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>>
>>Actually Ken Thompson and Joe Condon _did_ build Belle.  Ken did the original
>>design, and both worked on putting it all together.
>
>Just recently I watched "The Great Chess Movie", I think made in the mid 1980's.
>It's mostly about Fischer, Karpov and Korchnoi, but it did have a small
>2-5 minute section on chess computers. There was a scene with Coudari (one of
>film's directors/creators), Ken Thompson and Mike Valvo and a forth guy who I
>always wondered who he was (probably the guy you mentioned, Joe Condon). I
>remember the scene because Valvo was talking about chess in terms of
>the light/dark side of Star Wars. The forth guy then entered the conversation
>and said something like, "yea, but computers don't believe in that
>philosophical B.S.", which elicited some laughter from the group.

I didn't see the thing, so can't comment.  But that sounds somewhat like
something Joe would say.  :)



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