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Re: Who typed in Tal.glst ??

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From: Stuart Cracraft
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 20:15
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In article <1993Apr14.081154.10059@alf.uib.no> sinoa@alf.uib.no (Andreas Lothe Opdahl) writes:
>In article <1993Apr2.172644.152@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu>, chris@barrister.ucs.uoknor.edu (Chris L Petroff	) writes:
>|>
>|> I saved it from rec.games.chess.
>|> It was posted shortly after Tal's death, but I don't know who the origional
>|> author was...   not me!  :-)
>|> 
>
>Wasn't it Ken Thompson who downloaded it?  Thanks to all involved anyway...
>

I remember getting a large collection of machine-readable Tal
games from K.Thompson in the mid-80's. 

You're right in that the collection should be credited to 
the person who typed them in (Thompson used a scanner with
some sort of clever error-correctiion that was chess
context-sensitive.)

Stuart
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