Author: David Blackman
Date: 21:37:11 04/13/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 22:47:20, Pete Galati wrote: MacHack by Richard Greenblatt was probably the best. This was probably the only competitive chess program ever written in Lisp. There were at least two other programs written at MIT, one of them by Kotok and McCarthy. I think just about everyone in US AI research back in the 1960s tried to write a chess program and quite a few probably succeeded in writing weak programs. One of the more famous ones was by Bell, Newell and Simon. At least two programs in the USSR. Alazarov, Adelson-Velskiy, Donskoy are names i vaguely remember and were involved with one or both programs. One of these programs beat the Kotok/McCarthy program in a short match. The other was called Kaissa. It continued to improve for a while and was probably the best in the world in the early 1970s. Right at the end of the 1960s quite a few programmers in USA and Canada started on programs that became stronger and better known in the 1970s. This includes Slate, Aitken and Gorlen at NorthWestern University ; Monty Newborn ; Bob Hyatt ; Hans Berliner .
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