Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:02:08 04/14/00
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On April 14, 2000 at 00:37:11, David Blackman wrote: >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 MackHack wasn't written in lisp. It was written in assembly language for the Digital PDP-10 processor. I had a copy of this I got from Greenblatt somewhere in the very early 70's. MackHack played in the 60's. Other well-known programs included Coko and chess 3.x, both of which played in the first ACM computer chess event in 1970... > >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. It actually wasn't. Chess 3.x and 4.x were both better, although the margin wasn't too wide... > >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 . true although several of those played their first move in the late 60's. My program made its first move in late 1968...
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