Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:39:13 11/19/99
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On November 19, 1999 at 15:42:10, Jari Huikari wrote:
>On November 19, 1999 at 14:56:35, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>>2. How many years you have used in developing Tiger?
>
>>I started to think about chess programming in 1979, but at that time I did not
>>manage to write a chess program for my TI-58. I wrote my first real chess
>>program in 1982, in assembly, on a TRS-80.
>
>I started four and half years ago. I remember that chess program came into
>my mind in 1983 when I got VIC 20. But with VIC one could only consider
>Tic Tac Toe programs, because of the small memory. I remember anyhow I saw
>a chess program for VIC. It could play - crudely. It let the kings be
>captured and the game continued anyhow after taking them...
>
>But when I bought Sargon II cartridge I got a reasonable computer opponent
>for the first time in my life.
>
> Jari
That's how it started for me too. When I played for the first time against
Sargon II on TRS-80. It was in 1979, I was in africa at that time.
I have got Sargon I only several years after! :)
Christophe
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