Author: Peter Berger
Date: 03:12:44 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 04:45:14, martin fierz wrote: >does anybody have details on ancient computer chess history? > >cheers > martin Here is another reference (stolen from http://www.thocp.net/timeline/1940.htm): "Konrad Zuse writes a chess program (between 1942 and 1945) in Zuse's own developed programming language: Plankalkuel, a high-level language for which no compiler will be available until the 1990's. It precedes Shannon's future article about computer chess by almost five years. The code was published in 1972 in "Der Plankalkül" (10)" 10 Reports of the GMD, N. 63 And here is one that goes into more detail: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Zuse_Plan_Kalkul.pdf It looks as if Zuse was pretty obsessed with chess as an example for his Plankalkuel. Zuse speaking himself: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.2.html Another link giving a brief history of computerchess that sounds fair: http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~comp3330/history/chess/chess.html
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