Author: Ed Trice
Date: 07:46:38 01/12/04
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>> >>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". It was still impressive that Quevedo had built a machine to play Rook vs, King endings so long ago. When you measure such an accomplishment in comparison to what technology was available at the time, it really was a significant accomplishment. But, as far as laying claims to who invented what and when, I will respectfully bow out of that argument :) --Ed
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