The very first DOS chess program was?

[Don]

..and besides some dedicated units with programs by you...if you are "that" Kittinger.

I'm pretty sure he is "that" David K - you can look at his profile, then click on the link to show all his posts and there are many clues there.

If that is the case, we are honored to have him with us.

[geots]

Are you David Kittinger? If so, a pleasure to see you here! I had your Wchess and even once I wrote to you showing a game which I won to Wchess and asking you if by chance there was a bug in the code, to what you answered nicely that not, that my game was good enough to get that result. After that I have had Power Chess -buggy to the extreme due to the GUI- and now Majestic Chess.
Every guy here knows about you and wonder from time to time if you are going to deliver, sometime, an UCI version of the engine.
If you are NOT that Kittinger, all the said things are true the same...

Fern

I never heard of him, other than bits and pieces at times. But if he is, and I say this with absolute seriousness and NO sarcasm, this godlike figure from the early days of computer chess- how long do you really expect him to hang around this asylum answering questions and signing autographs.


gts

[Sylwy]

I never heard of him..........................

gts

Maestro Georges !

This your above declaration is about Mr. Dave Kittinger ?????????????????????

About a legend in computer chess ?????????????????????????????????????????

About the creator of MyChess , WChess (the superb Chessmaster 2000-2100-3000; Power Chess, USCF Chess , the great Majestic Chess , Aladdin Chess....) , a lot of dedicated chess computers ( Savant , Robot Adversary , Constellation, Novag...) ????????????????????????????????

I can't belive !

Maestro Georges , Ivan dehumanized you !

The great David Kittinger thinking to "some" ex-CCRL testers:




SilvianR

[mephisto]

I was in contact with Dave Kittinger in 2008 and here's what he had to say.
http://kittinger.yolasite.com/
Bryan

[geots]

I never heard of him..........................

gts

Maestro Georges !

This your above declaration is about Mr. Dave Kittinger ?????????????????????

About a legend in computer chess ?????????????????????????????????????????

About the creator of MyChess , WChess (the superb Chessmaster 2000-2100-3000; Power Chess, USCF Chess , the great Majestic Chess , Aladdin Chess....) , a lot of dedicated chess computers ( Savant , Robot Adversary , Constellation, Novag...) ????????????????????????????????

I can't belive !

Maestro Georges , Ivan dehumanized you !

The great David Kittinger thinking to "some" ex-CCRL testers:




SilvianR

What is scandalous? All I said was that if he is truly a legend- why would he hang around this silly place. There are many who are legends in their time. The ones hanging around here are "legends in their own minds."

[Rebel]

That's the Bxh7+ man indeed

[Jose Carlos]

The first chess program I recall (non for PC) was Masterchess, for the Amstrad (I don't remember the author). Next ones, also for the Amstrad, were Cyrus II (Richard Lang) and Colossus 3 or 4 (Martin Bryant).

Those of the Amstrad were good days...

[mclane]

yes. i also had this amstrad cpc 464.

colossus was very good on it.
a pity there are no new colossus versions for UCI.

[Dan Honeycutt]

The first chess program I recall (non for PC) was Masterchess, for the Amstrad (I don't remember the author). Next ones, also for the Amstrad, were Cyrus II (Richard Lang) and Colossus 3 or 4 (Martin Bryant).

Those of the Amstrad were good days...

The first program I had was Microchess which Kittinger mentions as his inspiration in the interview above with Bryan. Man, was that program a dog. I don't think it had a search - I think it just generated moves and played one at random. Soon after Sargon came along, a thousand fold improvement over Microchess.

Best
Dan H.

[Don]

Are you David Kittinger? If so, a pleasure to see you here! I had your Wchess and even once I wrote to you showing a game which I won to Wchess and asking you if by chance there was a bug in the code, to what you answered nicely that not, that my game was good enough to get that result. After that I have had Power Chess -buggy to the extreme due to the GUI- and now Majestic Chess.
Every guy here knows about you and wonder from time to time if you are going to deliver, sometime, an UCI version of the engine.
If you are NOT that Kittinger, all the said things are true the same...

Fern

I never heard of him, other than bits and pieces at times. But if he is, and I say this with absolute seriousness and NO sarcasm, this godlike figure from the early days of computer chess- how long do you really expect him to hang around this asylum answering questions and signing autographs.


gts

One this is certainly true on this forum, as Rodney Dangerfield would probably agree, don't expect to get any respect. I doubt even Claude Shannon would get any respect on this forum.