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Subject: Re: What chess projects we have in the States?

Author: leonid

Date: 04:49:02 12/05/99

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On December 04, 1999 at 21:59:06, Heiko Mikala wrote:

>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.

Very strange! I remember that Mchess I never bought and tryed through one of my
friend. When I found that it simply not include special feature that permit to
ask for mate in given number of moves, it was useless for me. Later I bought,
only for mate solutions one, "new game" that was Wchess. Description about the
author was found in it manual. Maybe with arrival of the next millennium I
became mixup. What will happened to me after 2000!?

Leonid.



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