Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!ken From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,rec.games.chess Subject: Re: The Game of Chess - Summary Message-ID: <27248@rochester.ARPA> Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 03:11:26 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.27248 Posted: Thu Apr 23 03:11:26 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 00:24:34 EST References: <183@tness1.UUCP> Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 9 Keywords: chess source code Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:2017 rec.games.chess:157 Actually it wasn't the V7 chess program that got into trouble with export control, it was Ken Thompson's special chess machine (Belle, think that is the program though) with hardware assist. Ken's remark was something along the lines: ... the only way you could make a weapon out of it is if you dropped it out of a plane and hit somebody... Ken (not that Ken)