Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 12:10:24 02/20/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 02:27:12, Drazen Marovic wrote: >On February 20, 2000 at 02:25:32, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >>On February 20, 2000 at 01:39:09, Drazen Marovic wrote: >> >>>What is Botvinnik's legacy to computer chess? >> >>Drazen, there is some litterature listed at >> >>http://ybishop.cjb.net/ >> >>Look for "The Botvinnik Project" >>I don't know from memory where you could find more material, maybe at >> >>http://www.cs.rulimburg.nl/~uiterwyk/ >> >>where there is a list at >> >>http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/otherpub.htm >> >>Botvinnik worked for many years on his program Pioneer but had very poor >>hardware available to him in the USSR. It could solve some very difficult >>positions from Botwinnik's games but never reached the stage where it could play >>whole games as far as I know. >> >>Eelco > > >Eelco are you related to the famous psychologist De groot? :) No, I can't boast about that I'm afraid. There are many De Groots in my country, it is a very common name. Just means "tall" in Dutch, a bit like Long in English speaking countries. I read that professor Adriaan D. de Groot does live not very far from here, a little to the north of the town of Groningen where I live, on beautiful Schiermonnikoog. Beautiful small island, nature reserve, hideout for celebrities. In New in Chess magazine 1999, nr. 8 there was a long article on the occasion of his 85th birthday by Dr. Fernand Gobet and he writes: "Retired since 1985, De Groot now lives with his wife Elsa on Schiermonnikoog, a Frisian island north of Groningen. His many interests keep him quite busy: completion of some old scientific projects ( Note: I believe part of this led to another book, Adriaan D. de Groot, Fernand Gobet: Perception and Memory in Chess: Studies in the Heuristics of the Professional Eye: Van Gorcum 1996. ISBN 90 232 2949 5., about which programmer Chrilly Donninger wrote a review too that was published a.o. in "Computerschaak" Dutch magazine for computer-chess, October 1999. I don't believe it is available on Nimzo's homepage ), music - both as a piano improviser and violinist in an amateur chamber music ensemble - reading Latin works in the original language and... chess" Eelco
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