You are welcome.Gerd Isenberg wrote:Thank you, Carey. I particulary like the Beal draft papers/alg1986review.txt from 2006 of the recently discussed nullmove-quiescence.Carey wrote: I still feel like there was more what I'm posting. Stuff that wasn't ready to release or stuff that the author shared but didn't want me to post. (Oh expletive... I better check that for that ASAP! My memory is so bad that if I didn't make note of it, there's no way I'll remember now!)
Nearly all, if not all, of the authors I did manage to get hold of were friendly and quite willing to help with whatever they had left.
It was just so hard for me to find people back then. Not as many search engines for people etc. as now, I guess. Perhaps now days, a subscription to a couple "find people" sites would find most of them in minutes...
If the computer chess community was to continue the project before it's too late, there's not much telling what other info, programs, stories, notes, etc. that might be recovered. They can even start expanding into the 80's micro programs. (Admittedly the Computer History Museum has lots of stuff, but their focus isn't computer chess.)
Even if it isn't technically useful, it can still be historically important, like the scans of a few of the original punch cards for KAISSA. Obviously not a lot of use, but it is a link to the program.