Author: Peter Berger
Date: 02:09:00 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 04:45:14, martin fierz wrote: >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: >>>> >>>>>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? Frankly, I couldn't care less that it was a German. It's just coincidence that I know btw. In 2001 there was a little computerchess tournament in Berlin, where there was a lecture by Professor Rojas who explained how this program worked. I remember that it was developped simply as an example for the power of his Plankalkuel programming language, and that it was done before 1945, but only published in 1972. The date of the original work is not controversial. It would be a nice one for a quiz show ;).
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