Author: blass uri
Date: 14:54:38 12/03/99
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On December 03, 1999 at 07:14:21, leonid wrote: >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. I am from Israel and Amir Ban(the programmer of Junior) is also from Israel. I am not a good programmer(I did not write programs of more than some hundreds lines and I know nothing about assembler) and my talent is for mathematics. I believe that I have a lot of good ideas that chess programmers do not use but it is not easy to explain them to the computer. I started to try to write my chess computer program in C. Uri
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