Dedicated trivia

[Bob_Minge]

During the 1989 World Microcomputer Chess Championship in Portoroz Yugoslavia, a unique scandal occured in the event. An unknown German entrant called "Quickstep" was doing well with 4 of 6 points when it was disqualified. It seems Quickstep was using a pirated version of which dedicated program?

When Software Toolworks brought out the Chessmaster 2000 and Chessmaster 2100 for the IBM computers, it was not a port of a Fidelity dedicated program because that ran on a 68000 processor and could only be ported to a mac computer to run fairly strong. Which dedicated programer wrote the program that was in Chessmaster 2000 & 2100 for the IBM computers?

[Robert Weck]

During the 1989 World Microcomputer Chess Championship in Portoroz Yugoslavia, a unique scandal occured in the event. An unknown German entrant called "Quickstep" was doing well with 4 of 6 points when it was disqualified. It seems Quickstep was using a pirated version of which dedicated program?

Mephisto Almeria

When Software Toolworks brought out the Chessmaster 2000 and Chessmaster 2100 for the IBM computers, it was not a port of a Fidelity dedicated program because that ran on a 68000 processor and could only be ported to a mac computer to run fairly strong. Which dedicated programer wrote the program that was in Chessmaster 2000 & 2100 for the IBM computers?

Hmm, here i am not sure: David Kittinger would be my first guess...


Robert

[Mike S.]

(...) David Kittinger would be my first guess...

This is correct. He also wrote the engine for Chessmaster 3000, which was about as strong as Fritz 1 or Zarkov 2.5/2.6.

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[Event "Oldies II"]
[Site "Wien"]
[Date "2001.01.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Chessmaster 3000"]
[Black "Novag Sapphire"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rbbnknqr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKNQR w KQkq - 0 1"]

1. Nc3 d6 2. d4 f5 3. Nd2 e6 4. e4 Ng6 5. exf5 exf5 6. Nf3 Be6 7. g3 Kf8 8. Qg2
Bc4 9. Be3 Qf7 10. Ng5 Qd7 11. Qf3 h6 12. Nge4 Kg8 13. Nd2 Bf7 14. O-O Kh7 15.
Re1 Re8 16. Ne2 Ne7 17. c4 d5 18. g4 dxc4 19. gxf5 Ng8 20. Ne4 Qb5 21. f6 Kh8
22. fxg7+ Kxg7 23. Qg3+ Kh8 24. Qh4 Qa5 25. Bc2 Qh5 26. Qxh5 Bxh5 27. d5 Kg7
28. Nf4 Bf7 29. Bd4+ Kf8 30. Nc5 Re7 31. Ng6+ Bxg6 32. Bxg6 Nf7 33. Ne6+ Rxe6
34. Rxe6 c6 35. dxc6 Bf4 36. cxb7 Rb8 37. Rae1 1-0

[Bob_Minge]

Very Good Robert and Mike. I did not know that until I reread some of my old CC reports last week. Thought I would throw those questions out. Just thought it was interesting/funny that a competitor wrote the program for suposedly a Fidelity product, and that cheating/cloning was happening back then also. I hope the reports get back up on the net. It has been a while since I have read them.


The other generation regards.
Bob Minge