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Subject: Chess game written in the region of ex Soviet Union, India, Israel.

Author: leonid

Date: 04:14:21 12/03/99


Hello!

I have seen here few names that sound to me like Russian. Wanted to ask them
about the situation of chess programming in the ex Soviet Union but prefered to
be careful. Human reaction is unpredictable. If you know something about this
matter, please explain.

I left Soviet Union and went into "volontary exile" exactly 20 years ago. Never
came back. When I was there, beside playing occasionally in the park, I never
was in chess competitions or programming. Remember only some sporadic news
describing the progress in writing the chess game by Botvinic's team. Game was
never done. At that time Russians were good in playing the chess game but
probably never in programming. Reason - price of PC was beyond the reach of
simple man and computer was not existant in the shops. How situation is now? Do
we have some prominent chess programming going in the Easten Europe?

If you happened to be from India or Israel (where we have now very strong
software development), please explain about those countries as well.

Thanks!
Leonid.



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