Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:07:54 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 10:46:38, Ed Trice wrote: > >>> >>>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. > Sure it was, just as Shannon's "device". However, compute chess is based on minmax and everything since, with Shannon's paper right at the bottom of the tree that grew so quickly out of it. >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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