Two questions for Bob

[Gerd Isenberg]

I found that picture from the computer history museum, ACM 1982.

Bob, do you know who the guy sitting between you and Ken Thompson is?

A second question. Does somebody know who the cartoonist from that WCCC 1989 paper is?

Thanks,
Gerd

[Carey]

Gerd,

At least some of them are by Jeff Ragsdale, who at the time was of Rose Artist Studio, Dallas Texas. I think all of them, but I'm not sure.

Here's the quote from the Dec 1987 issue of ICCAJ. (Yes, 1987. At least some of the caricatures were was printed in several issues of ICCAJ in 87, 88 & 89.)

1987 was also the year of "Revenge of the Computer Chess Widows". Bonnie Thompson (wife of Belle's Ken Thompson), Claire Nelson (wife of Blitz's Harry Nelson), and Linda Scherzer (BeBe programmer) ran across a caricature artist during an afternoon outing. Linda made the suggestion in fun, but Bonnie took action! During one round the artist came in and, while attention was on the games in progress, caricatures were drawn of contestants and director.

[bob]

Not a clue. But likely a member of the local chess club that helped keep the display boards up to date with the real game board...

[bob]

Gerd,

At least some of them are by Jeff Ragsdale, who at the time was of Rose Artist Studio, Dallas Texas. I think all of them, but I'm not sure.

Here's the quote from the Dec 1987 issue of ICCAJ. (Yes, 1987. At least some of the caricatures were was printed in several issues of ICCAJ in 87, 88 & 89.)

1987 was also the year of "Revenge of the Computer Chess Widows". Bonnie Thompson (wife of Belle's Ken Thompson), Claire Nelson (wife of Blitz's Harry Nelson), and Linda Scherzer (BeBe programmer) ran across a caricature artist during an afternoon outing. Linda made the suggestion in fun, but Bonnie took action! During one round the artist came in and, while attention was on the games in progress, caricatures were drawn of contestants and director.

Actually I think they were all drawn by someone's wife. I don't remember who exactly, but I remember we had a lot of fun talking about the pictures. Maybe someone will recall...

[Carey]

Gerd,

At least some of them are by Jeff Ragsdale, who at the time was of Rose Artist Studio, Dallas Texas. I think all of them, but I'm not sure.

Here's the quote from the Dec 1987 issue of ICCAJ. (Yes, 1987. At least some of the caricatures were was printed in several issues of ICCAJ in 87, 88 & 89.)

1987 was also the year of "Revenge of the Computer Chess Widows". Bonnie Thompson (wife of Belle's Ken Thompson), Claire Nelson (wife of Blitz's Harry Nelson), and Linda Scherzer (BeBe programmer) ran across a caricature artist during an afternoon outing. Linda made the suggestion in fun, but Bonnie took action! During one round the artist came in and, while attention was on the games in progress, caricatures were drawn of contestants and director.

Actually I think they were all drawn by someone's wife. I don't remember who exactly, but I remember we had a lot of fun talking about the pictures. Maybe someone will recall...

I wasn't there. I have to go by what that issue of ICCAJ says.

It and the caption under all the drawings in those ICCAJ issues say Jeff Ragsdale.

And the ones in that WCC 1989 paper are mostly the same as what I see in the 87-89 issues. I don't see all of them though (I don't have all the issues from then), so perhaps some of them were done by somebody else.

(shrug)

[Gerd Isenberg]

Gerd,

At least some of them are by Jeff Ragsdale, who at the time was of Rose Artist Studio, Dallas Texas. I think all of them, but I'm not sure.

Here's the quote from the Dec 1987 issue of ICCAJ. (Yes, 1987. At least some of the caricatures were was printed in several issues of ICCAJ in 87, 88 & 89.)

1987 was also the year of "Revenge of the Computer Chess Widows". Bonnie Thompson (wife of Belle's Ken Thompson), Claire Nelson (wife of Blitz's Harry Nelson), and Linda Scherzer (BeBe programmer) ran across a caricature artist during an afternoon outing. Linda made the suggestion in fun, but Bonnie took action! During one round the artist came in and, while attention was on the games in progress, caricatures were drawn of contestants and director.

Actually I think they were all drawn by someone's wife. I don't remember who exactly, but I remember we had a lot of fun talking about the pictures. Maybe someone will recall...

I wasn't there. I have to go by what that issue of ICCAJ says.

It and the caption under all the drawings in those ICCAJ issues say Jeff Ragsdale.

And the ones in that WCC 1989 paper are mostly the same as what I see in the 87-89 issues. I don't see all of them though (I don't have all the issues from then), so perhaps some of them were done by somebody else.

(shrug)

Thanks Carey and Bob for your answers.

Trying google for 'Jeff Ragsdale', it seems quite difficult to find the right one or even the cartoons. I had similar problems to find Larry Harris

There is one cartoon of Danny Kopec with 'David'. Could it be that Danny is the author of the program 'David', which competed the 1st ACM tournament in 1970? Danny is quite young, born 1956. In Recent Developments in Computer Chess he mentioned to be member of Harris' team of Dartmouth CP, where Chess 3 was lucky to draw against at the ACM 73.

[bob]

Gerd,

At least some of them are by Jeff Ragsdale, who at the time was of Rose Artist Studio, Dallas Texas. I think all of them, but I'm not sure.

Here's the quote from the Dec 1987 issue of ICCAJ. (Yes, 1987. At least some of the caricatures were was printed in several issues of ICCAJ in 87, 88 & 89.)

1987 was also the year of "Revenge of the Computer Chess Widows". Bonnie Thompson (wife of Belle's Ken Thompson), Claire Nelson (wife of Blitz's Harry Nelson), and Linda Scherzer (BeBe programmer) ran across a caricature artist during an afternoon outing. Linda made the suggestion in fun, but Bonnie took action! During one round the artist came in and, while attention was on the games in progress, caricatures were drawn of contestants and director.

Actually I think they were all drawn by someone's wife. I don't remember who exactly, but I remember we had a lot of fun talking about the pictures. Maybe someone will recall...

I wasn't there. I have to go by what that issue of ICCAJ says.

It and the caption under all the drawings in those ICCAJ issues say Jeff Ragsdale.

And the ones in that WCC 1989 paper are mostly the same as what I see in the 87-89 issues. I don't see all of them though (I don't have all the issues from then), so perhaps some of them were done by somebody else.

(shrug)

Thanks Carey and Bob for your answers.

Trying google for 'Jeff Ragsdale', it seems quite difficult to find the right one or even the cartoons. I had similar problems to find Larry Harris

There is one cartoon of Danny Kopec with 'David'. Could it be that Danny is the author of the program 'David', which competed the 1st ACM tournament in 1970? Danny is quite young, born 1956. In Recent Developments in Computer Chess he mentioned to be member of Harris' team of Dartmouth CP, where Chess 3 was lucky to draw against at the ACM 73.

No. Danny was certainly not involved with the "David" of 1970.

As far as the artist goes, that was so long ago I would not give much credibility to anything I might recall. The events were a lot of fun, however. I do miss that.