CM 3000 authorship - settled?

[Reinfeld]

This topic was debated in an older thread last spring:

http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic. ... 5c32ce8a54

Spacious Mind's take:

Unfortunately none of the Credits in Chessmaster 3000 mention any known chess programmer. Henrik Markarian's name also floats around CM2100 therefore CM3000 has no named chess programmer name behind it. As such it could be:
Kittinger
Spracklen
De Koening
Markarian

I love this old program (still own the floppies), and recently discovered an Windows 3.1 emulator that runs it on a Mac, making it possible to see the credits. Spacious Mind is right - the names don't include a known chess programmer.

However, a stray post preserved here...

http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=422436

...appears to get closer to the answer:

According to Don Laabs, who was involved to some degree in just about every Chessmaster ever made, all engines in the early versions of Chessmaster (before Johan's) were by Kittinger, no matter what the platform.

jm

The Laabs name does indeed appear the CM 3000 credits. Looks like a strong source.

- R.