Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:16:37 12/13/01
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On December 13, 2001 at 13:25:23, David Dory wrote: >>Chess is a disappointingly simple game, even a human beginner >>>can create a master-level chess program. >>> >>>Tord >> >> >> >>Actually it happened already. I guess it was around 1980, a guy who barely knew >>how to move the pieces created a program that took a good place (or even won) in >>the World Computer Chess Championship. >> >>Maybe Bob remembers. I seem to remember the guy was canadian. The name of his >>program was maybe Chaos or something like that. >> >> >> >> Christophe > >That would be Claude Jarry who could only tell how his program "L'Excentrique" >was doing by looking at the printout from the program. > >Nevertheless, his program defeated the then world champ CHESS 4.9 in the first >round in the World Championships in Austria, 1980, so it was certainly strong! > >Dave Good memory, and you are correct on all counts. It was very fast, but very dumb. I remember Ken once saying "If you can just hold on and not get caught by its tactics, it will eventually 'fold' and make a horrible positional mistake and crumble away." That was generally true. But _only_ if you could live past the searches it was doing. :) Chaos was a selective search program, mainly written by Fred Schwartz at the University of Michigan. Fred and I chatted often back then as we had similar ideas... BTW L'Excentrique ran on IBM/Amdahl machines (mainframes), usually the biggest/fastest available.
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