Author: leonid
Date: 13:44:17 12/04/99
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On December 04, 1999 at 15:07:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 04, 1999 at 13:52:25, leonid wrote: > >>On December 04, 1999 at 10:33:29, William Bryant wrote: >> >>>On December 04, 1999 at 10:08:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On December 04, 1999 at 08:58:35, leonid wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hello! >>>>> >>>>>Please, say in general, what old or new chess projects we have in the States. >>>>> >>>>>I have the impression that my knowlege about States is pretty limited. I bought >>>>>only one good chess game done in the States. I know more about chess games done >>>>>in Holland, Germany and France. America make me think only about Crafty and Deep >>>>>Blue. Crafty as the most prominent, opened project where you can even see its >>>>>author in person. Deep Blue as distant, melt from gold solid idol. Good spot for >>>>>recreation and esthetics but something that was not invented for the practical >>>>>use. Please, make my picture as much complet and correct as you can. >>>>> >>>>>If somewhere beyond the States you know some lonely place where we have some >>>>>interesting chess development, please mention it as well. All kind of surpises >>>>>are possible. I remember that until now I was able to buy only one book printed >>>>>in Australia by Barry Kauler. It explain how to write programs on Assembler for >>>>>Windows. This miracle appearance is unique and was never repeated in any part of >>>>>the world. >>>>> >>>>>Leonid. >>>> >>>> >>>>mchess pro >>>> >>>>Ferret (Moreland) >>>> >>>>Zarkov (Stanback) >>>> >>>>Now (although I no longer know where Mark is and what he is doing) >>>> >>>>Crafty (of course) >>>> >>>>gnuchess (Cracraft + committee... ) >>>> >>>>cilkchess (Daily) >>>> >>>>NuChess (slate) >>>> >>>>Lachex (Wendroff) >>>> >>>>Wchess (Kittinger) >>>> >>>>Spector (Edwards) >>>> >>>>Stobor (Kerrigan) >>>> >>>>There are probably at least a few more that I missed, I am at home, my files >>>>are at the office. >>> >>>Then there are the amature programs in development including (but not limited >>>to): >>> >>>Screamer (my Mac base program) >>>Amature (Singleton) >>>Insominac (Robinson) >>> >>>These are the ones that come to mind ... there are many others. >>> >>>William >>>wbryant@ix.netcom.com >> >>I recognized just two more that I used and bought in the past: Mchess and >>Wchess. Wchess I remember well because it was useful at the time when I bought >>it and by the fact that it was written by ex programmer from NASA. >> >>Leonid. > > >Not sure what you mean by "ex programmer from NASA". I am not aware of Dave >ever working for NASA. He's been 'chessing' as long as I can remember, while >also (for a good while) working in Alaska. He is now in Mobile, Alabama... Maybe some mistake from my side. I only remember very well that around 5 years ago I was in writing my logic for solving the mate positions. At that time I had Mchess that was useless in this aspect. I bought one "professional game" which name was for sure "Wchess" (world chess). In description to this game I found that author of the game worked before for NASA (satelite business). Beside his occupation in programming for NASA, he was able to write in its spare time his first chess game. And because "recent" cuts in NASA budget he almost switched to the chess programming and was able to produce very strong game. Program was for DOS and done in Assembler. Graphics simple but game was good, at least on the level of mate solving. Only after buying the Genius 4 that I found even more impecable mate solver to use. But Wchess was very speedy. Do we speak about the same game? Leonid.
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