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- Eric Wainwright
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Selective Search back issues
Hello everybody,
I’d like to announce that Mike Watters and I are halfway through our project to scan and upload the entire collection of Selective Search computer chess magazines to his website. There are well over 150 issues in all, and if you’ve never had the chance to read them, you’re in for a real treat. Started in 1985, Selective Search covered the computer chess scene in elaborate and loving detail until it ceased publication in 2013.
You can access the initial set of issues on Mike’s website:
http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/sel ... earch.html
Eric Hallsworth, creator and editor of Selective Search magazine, has graciously given us his permission to make this historic set of issues available free of charge to computer chess aficionados everywhere.
Please enjoy!
Eric Wainwright & Mike Watters
I’d like to announce that Mike Watters and I are halfway through our project to scan and upload the entire collection of Selective Search computer chess magazines to his website. There are well over 150 issues in all, and if you’ve never had the chance to read them, you’re in for a real treat. Started in 1985, Selective Search covered the computer chess scene in elaborate and loving detail until it ceased publication in 2013.
You can access the initial set of issues on Mike’s website:
http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/sel ... earch.html
Eric Hallsworth, creator and editor of Selective Search magazine, has graciously given us his permission to make this historic set of issues available free of charge to computer chess aficionados everywhere.
Please enjoy!
Eric Wainwright & Mike Watters
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Many thanks to you and Mike for making these invaluable references available on Mike's website. I am especially looking forward to seeing the earlier years too.
Great reading...Regards,
Dave
Great reading...Regards,
Dave
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I can only repeat what others already said.
Great job, and many, many thanx!
Looking forward to reading regards,
Paul
Great job, and many, many thanx!
Looking forward to reading regards,
Paul
2024 Special thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12741
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If I am mistaken, it must be caused by a horizon effect...
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Hi All
Just to bring things up to date.
Issues 100-120 are now available on the website. Years 2002 (part)-2005.
For some hardcore chess computer nostalgia try the Dan & Kathe Spracklen article by Rob Van Son in Issue 106.
Rob wrote lots of articles for Eric Hallsworth during this period. Some I remember well include a Kurt Kispert interview (109) which really got me started collecting and led to all this, one on Ruud Martin (112) and the well named "Collecting Chess Computers - Passion or Madness" (119).
http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/sel ... _2005.html
All the best
Mike
Just to bring things up to date.
Issues 100-120 are now available on the website. Years 2002 (part)-2005.
For some hardcore chess computer nostalgia try the Dan & Kathe Spracklen article by Rob Van Son in Issue 106.
Rob wrote lots of articles for Eric Hallsworth during this period. Some I remember well include a Kurt Kispert interview (109) which really got me started collecting and led to all this, one on Ruud Martin (112) and the well named "Collecting Chess Computers - Passion or Madness" (119).
http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/sel ... _2005.html
All the best
Mike
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Hi Bryan
Uploading and checking this stuff I often stop to read an article I had forgotten about. Makes it a slow process.
In the 2000s I used to bemoan the fact that there was so many PC software articles and so few chess computer ones. Actually with them all together there is plenty to read whatever your interest.
One of the noteworthy features of Selective Search up to 2005 was Eric Hallsworth's database of Human v Comp results. I am not sure that there is a comparable resource anywhere else. The last rating list with the Human results on it was Issue 117. There are sufficient games there to do a reasonably reliable Human-Comp Rating List which I think would show which programs and programmers do better against humans and which don't, though the Elos against humans were generally higher.
All the best
Mike
Uploading and checking this stuff I often stop to read an article I had forgotten about. Makes it a slow process.
In the 2000s I used to bemoan the fact that there was so many PC software articles and so few chess computer ones. Actually with them all together there is plenty to read whatever your interest.
One of the noteworthy features of Selective Search up to 2005 was Eric Hallsworth's database of Human v Comp results. I am not sure that there is a comparable resource anywhere else. The last rating list with the Human results on it was Issue 117. There are sufficient games there to do a reasonably reliable Human-Comp Rating List which I think would show which programs and programmers do better against humans and which don't, though the Elos against humans were generally higher.
All the best
Mike
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Hi SaschaMythbuster wrote:Hi,
in the latest section 91 - 120 the numbers 91 - 99 are not online. Is it a mistake or am I too impatient?
I hope, the rest will come soon ... I am really wating for the early numbers!
Regards,
Sascha
You are too impatient. 😀
Numbers 50-99 should be scanned now and I will get a DVD from Eric soon.
The earliest Selective Searches were very simple. Just a few A4 sheets stapelled together. It took a few years for the magazine to develop into its later format. Maybe that is disappointing news, but there is some good news. There were actually two 'Selective Searches' for a while. One produced by Eric Hallsworth and one produced by his former boss (....long story) Mike Healey.
Both versions are good reading. We will try to get permission to publish Mike Healey's version also. Then there are also a few extra supplements/editions.
All the best
Mike