Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:51:10 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 07:24:46, Toni 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. >> >>I'd say computer chess is a fairly significant part of American culture. >> >>Interestingly, Americans ruled at computer chess when the tournaments were >>regularly held in America. There hasn't been a tournament here since 1991 and >>Europeans are winning. Coincidence? My guess is that if a few tournaments were >>held in America, you'd be surprised by the latent interest and skill on this >>continent. >> >>-Tom > >For your knowledge, you're forgotting someone important: > >Leonardo Torres Quevedo, who was spanish > >http://64.225.32.123/magazine/computer.htm > >Regards I would not count a mechanical device that plays part of a game. I have a photo hanging in my office, signed by Claude Shannon, where he is sitting by a mechanical chess playing device (used relays) that he built in 1949. According to the note he wrote, this device could play with up to 6 pieces total. However, while a novelty, it is not "computer chess." Shannon's paper "How to program a computer to play chess" was the beginning. Anything prior was "vaporware".
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