Author: guy haworth
Date: 07:32:34 04/21/00
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There certainly is a detailed description of his 'program' ... which was an algorithm rather than a working piece of code. [ It was also true of his Mersenne-primes 'program' that it was an algorithm ... and that others were left to code it, in that case Tom Kilburn I think. ] The description is in a book in the local Univ library which I'll dig out. "Faster than Thought" by Bowden is 'favourite'. From what I remember, it scored positively for material and perhaps for mobility as well ... adding together the scores, Shannon-style. Turing actually played a game against someone, manually calculating the position-scores and emulating the 'program' himself. [ He lost quite quickly. ] Yes, it would be fun to have this 'program' functionally recreated: it must be quite trivial with the Crafty infrastructure. Guy
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