OLD versions of GNU Chess? (And others...)

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Does anybody know where I can get OLD versions of GNU Chess?

Like the early v1 and v2 ones?

It doesn't look like anybody has kept a copy of them, and all the old
referenced sites have been down for years.


I'd be particularly interested in the very first release, the v1.00 (or
whatever.)

(And any other early chess program.)


It just doesn't look like anybody has kept old chess programs....

I see Sargon's source, the Byte Magazine chess 0.5 program (only
recently made available!), MicroChess 1.0 and a few others, but most of
the others are just gone.

You'd think that if an author put that much work into writing it, he'd
want to keep a copy! (From what I gather, even many of the other
famous chess programs from the 70's and early 80's are gone. The
authors just didn't keep a copy!! Even Robert Hyatt, who's so active
now with Crafty, apparently doesn't have a copy of his old Cray Blitz
anymore! And even with Crafty, he doesn't distribute all the old
versions, for historical purposes.)

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aryz.2687@bumpymail.com wrote:

Try

http://users.telenet.be/artificialintelligence

Some very old versions there.