Author: Tom Likens
Date: 05:42:29 10/29/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 23:46:56, Steven Edwards wrote: >On October 28, 2003 at 23:37:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>On October 28, 2003 at 21:10:37, Steven Edwards wrote: >> >>>Here's a one question historical quiz that will test your knowledge of our >>>little corner of the programming world: >>> >>>Who was/were the first programmer(s) to use bitboards for piece >>>location/property representation? > >>without reading, I believe was both Slate/Atkin in chess 4.0 in 1974, and >>the russian group working on Kaissa, with Donskoy as the main programmer. > >Of course, both the NWU Chess and the Kaissa programs used bitboards, and in >apparantly an identical manner. Possibly Kaissa also used them in its causality >facility ("method of analogies"). > >>They apparently discovered this idea independently, at about the same time, >>and both showed up with bitboard programs at the same time... > >True. But neither is the answer to the question! I know you know the answer, >so please give it another try. Hmmm, I had the same impression Bob had (at least initially). I'm not sure I *do* know the answer :) --tom P.S. Maybe Botvinnik claimed credit (he certainly had enough other wild claims regarding computer chess)?!
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