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Subject: Re: What Chess programs existed in the '60s?

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 21:26:43 04/13/00

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On April 13, 2000 at 22:47:20, Pete Galati wrote:

>This was more or less mentioned in an earlier thread
>http://site2936.dellhost.com/forums/1/message.shtml?105891 "Do You know, that...
>"  but of course I find none, so I've tried looking around to see if I can find
>any web sites with history of computer Chess to try to dig up names.
>
>But search engines don't turn anything up, and in the Computer Chess Resource
>Center/Computer Chess Links  section of CCC, Paul Verhelst's very cool webpage
>of mostly dead links by now, has this dead link (don't try it, it doesn't work)
>http://www.datashopper.dk/~mathis/cchess.html
>
>So I don't have a clue what was going on during the '60s as far as Chess
>programs go.  Accounts that I more or less remember have things starting in '48
>as a concept, then late '50s there were more or less working programs, and then
>_nothing_ about the '60s, then I saw mention of somebody doing a Chess program
>on punch cards (oh my God!) in the early '70s.
>
>There has to have been something going on back then, I just don't find the info.
> Any suggestions?  Thanks.
>
>Pete

On punch cards?  Wow, a patient man.  Or maybe a man that should be a
patient....



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