Author: Heiko Mikala
Date: 18:59:06 12/04/99
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On December 04, 1999 at 16:44:17, leonid wrote: >On December 04, 1999 at 15:07:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 04, 1999 at 13:52:25, leonid wrote: >> >>>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. Could it be possible, that you're mixing these two up? As far as I know Marty Hirsch (MChess programmer) worked for NASA in earlier times. Greetings, Heiko.
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