Author: martin fierz
Date: 01:45:14 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 04:15:35, Peter Berger wrote: >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. hi peter, nice! i didn't know about that plankalkuel program. so it was a german who invented computer chess! and of course it took a german to point that out :-) (no offense intended of course - it's just funny that this kind of thing often also happens in physics, where different countries usually give different people credit for the same thing - and of course always "their own"). at what time exactly did he write that program, do you know? also interesting is that the page you referenced >http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Programme/Plankalkuel/Chess/chess.htm says shannon was first if you disregard zuse's work. while http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm says turing was before shannon. does anybody have details on ancient computer chess history? cheers martin
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