Author: Peter Berger
Date: 01:15:35 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 03:45:44, martin fierz wrote: >On January 12, 2004 at 00:23:19, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On January 11, 2004 at 16:42:15, martin fierz wrote: >> >>>On January 11, 2004 at 16:11:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>On January 10, 2004 at 16:24:59, Jim Bodkins wrote: >>>> >>>>>The US doesnt play chess really. USCF has 90,000 members out of 1/3 billion >>>>>people and just went bankrupt (over about $300,000 - chump change to a pro >>>>>basketball player) and had to sell its store to an english firm. Most of the top >>>>>US players (USCF) are immigrants not native. >>>>> >>>>>I'm a native American, so dont get mad. We play baseball not chess. Chess isnt >>>>>culturally a part of the US at all. People (Garry) come here mainly because of >>>>>money not chess. Chess software doesnt interest most programmers in my >>>>>experience. OS's, databases etc do. >>>>> >>>>>The US will get hammered, but the guys will probably have fun anyway. >>>>> >>>>>... oh, and we do Mars missions. :) >>>> >>>>I believe people on this message board have forgotten their history. :) Shannon >>>>was American, the revolutionary programs MacHack and CHESS were American, the >>>>world champions Belle, Deep Thought, and Cray Blitz were American. >>> >>>you are forgetting the first computer chess programmer - alan turing, not >>>exactly american :-) >> >>WHAT?! >> >>Claude Shannon is American... >> >>And he was before Turing... > >i won't claim shannon wasn't american. but AFAIK turing was there first. he was >the guy who played a computer chess game by computing moves of his program >himself on pieces of paper ;-) > >cheers > martin Neither of them were first. Konrad Zuse developped a chessprogram on paper in the language Plankalkuel he invented ( 1942-1945). You can read a little about it at http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Programme/Plankalkuel/Chess/chess.htm Some students implemented it as a Java applet some years ago, so you can even play against it yourself http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Programme/Plankalkuel/Chess/JavaApplet/chess.html It doesn't play very impressive chess of course - just gave it a try: 1. e4 a5 2. d4 a4 3. Bc4 a3 4. Qf3 axb2 5. Qxf6++
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