Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 18:36:18 11/19/99
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On November 19, 1999 at 16:39:13, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 I had a TRS-80 Colour Computer II, used to spend days copying programs from magazines into this thing, only to ever get a really crappy game at the end. But still it was better then the 1K MC-10 computer I first got. Just getting a block on the screen with that things was great
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