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by Gerd Isenberg
Sat May 23, 2020 4:19 pm
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: talkchess not accessible from France
Replies: 21
Views: 5207

Re: talkchess not accessible from France

Nice to meet some people here.
I'll hope talkchess is soon back again as before.

Cheers,
Gerd
by Gerd Isenberg
Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:24 pm
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: Kevin. E. leavelle
Replies: 10
Views: 1584

Re: Kevin. E. leavelle

This guy was the one that translated sargon 3 and 5 to Pc codes and I just found he died in 1994, just at 50 years of age, so if someone wanted to complain to him due to the work he did in sargon stuff, it s too late... RIP regards F Thank you for the information. Kevin Leavelle's mobygames page: h...
by Gerd Isenberg
Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:49 am
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: Kevin. E. leavelle
Replies: 10
Views: 1584

Re: Kevin. E. leavelle

This guy was the one that translated sargon 3 and 5 to Pc codes and I just found he died in 1994, just at 50 years of age, so if someone wanted to complain to him due to the work he did in sargon stuff, it s too late... RIP regards F Thank you for the information. Kevin Leavelle's mobygames page: h...
by Gerd Isenberg
Fri Feb 17, 2017 9:05 am
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: K-Chess Elite 4
Replies: 10
Views: 1681

Re: K-Chess Elite 4

Who know something about this program, beyond what is said in the author web site? It is said it coms from turbo ches, but, what turbo chess? In an IDC interview with Fernando Villegas, Rob McDonell mentions Borland's Turbo Chess, which was written by Kaare Danielsen. http://www.arkangles.com/kches...
by Gerd Isenberg
Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:28 am
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: confusion on first world dedicated computer chess champion
Replies: 6
Views: 2941

But on the back of the box of the champion it is wirtten that it has an even better program that the one from the 1st WCCC? http://spacious-mind.com/html/champion_sensory_challenger.html still confused regards Ricardo As far as I understand, Fidelity made misleading claims in advertising their Z80 ...
by Gerd Isenberg
Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:35 am
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: Hiarcs World Computer Software Champion 2013!
Replies: 69
Views: 114792

Harvey Williamson wrote:Hiarcs is the World Computer Software Champion 2013 played on equal hardware!
Wow, the two last rounds were more thrilling than you liked, I guess ;-)

Big Congratulations for Team Hiarcs for defending its title!
by Gerd Isenberg
Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:36 pm
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: Hiarcs World Computer Software Champion 2013!
Replies: 69
Views: 114792

No, the ICGA has not kept the games online since since 2010! Perhaps you could have a word with them about it while you've got their ear. Basically, you are the only voice of this tournament. The ICGA has been doing nothing to distribute results in any of their events Thanks for your reporting, and...
by Gerd Isenberg
Tue Aug 13, 2013 5:55 pm
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: Hiarcs World Computer Software Champion 2013!
Replies: 69
Views: 114792

No, the ICGA has not kept the games online since since 2010! Perhaps you could have a word with them about it while you've got their ear. Basically, you are the only voice of this tournament. The ICGA has been doing nothing to distribute results in any of their events Thanks for your reporting, and...
by Gerd Isenberg
Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:41 am
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: E6P author
Replies: 2
Views: 1134

Thank you, Mark. Would be great to figure out who the programmer was.

Gerd
by Gerd Isenberg
Fri Dec 21, 2012 4:04 pm
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: E6P author
Replies: 2
Views: 1134

E6P author

Hi, It is about the program E6P , which played the 1st Computer Olympiad 1989 in London . According to a 2007 post , Mark, who played the Olympiad as well, is aware of that fast program running on an Acorn ARM processor. Who was the author of E6P, unfortunately not mentioned on the ICGA tournament s...
by Gerd Isenberg
Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:50 am
Forum: HIARCS Customer Support & Announcements
Topic: HIARCS Chess Explorer is released!
Replies: 66
Views: 26029

Re: HIARCS Chess Explorer is released!

http://www.hiarcs.com/mac-chess-explorer.htm http://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-explorer.htm All HIARCS customers and those signed up for emails should wait for an email with their discount. Discounts CANNOT be applied retrospectively. Hi Mark and Harvey, sorry, I am not a Hiarcs customer (yet). The sc...
by Gerd Isenberg
Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:08 pm
Forum: HIARCS Customer Support & Announcements
Topic: HIARCS Chess Explorer is released!
Replies: 66
Views: 26029

Re: HIARCS Chess Explorer is released!

http://www.hiarcs.com/mac-chess-explorer.htm http://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-explorer.htm All HIARCS customers and those signed up for emails should wait for an email with their discount. Discounts CANNOT be applied retrospectively. Hi Mark and Harvey, sorry, I am not a Hiarcs customer (yet). The sc...
by Gerd Isenberg
Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:08 am
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: La Regence
Replies: 6
Views: 2557

Re: La Regence

Steve B wrote: as for using any of my photos or documents
you of course have my permission to use anything you wish for the Wiki which is an invaluable source of information for the Hardcore Collector
Thanks a lot Steve!
by Gerd Isenberg
Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:05 am
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: La Regence
Replies: 6
Views: 2557

Hi Gerd Although I have noticed one or two dubious references to La Regence being made by Applied Concepts I personally have not come across any connection between La Regence and Applied Concepts or Chafitz. Sandy distributed Applied Concepts/Destiny machines in Germany, and incidentally distribute...
by Gerd Isenberg
Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:20 pm
Forum: Main Lobby / General Discussions
Topic: La Regence
Replies: 6
Views: 2557

La Regence

Hi, first, big Thanks to all experts of dedicated units here as a great source of the history of chess computers as well as chess programming I have taken for the chess programming wiki, notably Mike Watters, Steve B, Alain Zanchetta, Bryan Whitby and Spacious mind et al.. Let me know of you don't l...