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Why did IBM have to take the machine apart? Because it was an overpowered potato. Imagine if the myth was over after people discovered it was badly coded and only performed well because of the hardware. By my estimation Fruit 2.1 with 2005 hardware was enough to outmatch Deep Blue. IBM's stock went...

i thought it was some weird typo at the time like they can never get it right from letter to print. But i think they scrambled my name to not let it appear Michael Adams of England was saying that. Mike Ronald Seattle Washington match in the letter in chess life per my signing but Udame was what the...

I can't believe i told Kasparov to give up chess in a published letter to Chess Life. But this was my pre internet years and this was my first serious encounter with Kasparov as a person. And i took this 10 dollar bet as a serious bet. And my initial reaction is what is he some kind of baby. Screen ...

I've ordered the July-dec 1997 back issues of Chess Life to see if i can find my letter. And if i can i'd love to scan it and share it. FYI: Chess Life and Chess Review PDF Archives thanks. i found my letter. it is here now http://www.lanternchess.com/i-was-right.png I was actually surprised at wha...

i was commenting to the same friend that started my reminisces on Deep Blue that that period late 90s was the dividing point in computer chess. In summer of 1988 i had a Fidelity Excellence chess board computer touted as 2000 USCF. One guy at an event i went to had the same thing. He was a 1700. sai...

Recently i was talking to a friend and sharing the stories of my year in the high school chess club as a junior in 1988 and how that lead to me finding chess life( some kids played USCF at my district chess tournament and were rated , we came in third), as some kids had ratings and i figured there o...

my understanding is that the rook and king must not move to be able to castle. if the rook leaves that square the rights to that side castle are gone. Dropping it there to me seems no different than simply moving it back there with a regular move. So i have programmed my pulsar chess engine which pl...

As some know the latest Mac OS update Catalina or 10.15 no longer supports 32 bit programs. The popular ICC for Mac on chessclub.com that comes with built in Stockfish no longer works as of now. I've contacted chessclub and have not heard back yet so not sure on long term prognosis. Lantern Chess co...

I've been getting some criticism in reviews that my Pulsar Chess engine on android, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lantern.michaeladams.pulsarchessengine&hl=en_US , is not also a stand alone and can't for example be run in DroidFish. I'm now trying to explain it's not a UCI engine...

I was chatting with someone who could not get his DGT board to work on Chessclub via its ICC for windows or Blitzin He did get it to work on chessbase. Now i know there are different brands now so i recommended chess for android as it supports multiple DGT boards and connects to chessclub. But he is...