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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