Author: stuart taylor
Date: 08:46:00 02/21/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 19:41:46, Pete Galati wrote: >On February 20, 2000 at 18:58:29, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On February 20, 2000 at 01:39:09, Drazen Marovic wrote: >> >>>What is Botvinnik's legacy to computer chess? >> >>In his own area of expertise he showed the great gap that always existed between >>soviet propagandistic thunders and pitiful reality. >>fernando > >I read somewhere, but I'm not clear on the details, that he (his people) was >working on a Chess program & he had high hopes for (he was impressed by his >efforts) but I never heard anything about if the program was ever finished or >what ever became of the work that was done. I assume it never saw the light of >day. Does anyone know if that's the case? > >People love to _hate_ him, I hear he was not a good natured person. He wasn't >very good at predictions, he thought Karpov had no future as a Chess player. I >don't care for Karpov's games myself, but Botvinnik was wrong, Karpov left a >mark. Botvinnik himself played some very good games early in his career, but he >wasn't the man to ask to build a Chess program. He was sharp enough to realize >that they had much potential, but... > >Pete I was sure that I had seen that it was Kaissa, but I didn't always see his name in connection with it.(anyway I should hope he wrote a chess program if he is being disccused here!) S.Taylor
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