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Subject: Re: Good old days, early '80s

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 10:02:16 11/26/99

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On November 26, 1999 at 12:45:37, Roy Brunjes wrote:

>Christophe,
>
>You may want to look for some programmers from Russia in the 80's (not even
>early 80's necessarily).  At that time, Russian programmers had access to only
>the very oldest (and therefore slowest) hardware from the west.  Their
>scientific programmers were VERY creative as a result and some companies in the
>early 90's hired them for their programming abilities (very creative algorithms
>to make up for slow hardware).  I do not know if there were any Russian chess
>programmers out there as well, though given their culture's strong interest in
>chess, I would think some programmers were active in chess programming.
>
>Worth a try maybe.

Good advice, thanks.



    Christophe



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