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Subject: About Sparc Module, last Spracklen Effort.

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 08:24:05 11/28/99


Hi all:
As you know, the last chessic effort from the famous couple constituted by Kathy
and Dan Spracklen was the module "Sparc", for the Saitek company. They were
working hard for a very a long time and althought the result was the strongest
program they ever created, it was not strong enough to defeat the by then
unstopable Lang criatures. So Sparc was a failure and very soon the couple
disappeared of the chess programming scene. My question: has been that module
translated to software? If not, could it be? Who has the rights of that product
IF Saitek is not anymore a player? Who know something about this issue? I have
the impression, but just that, that sometime this module was presented in a
tournament in software incarnation under the name Spracklen, but I am not sure.
So, again, who knows something?  Karsten? Enrique? Thosrten? ....
Fernando



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