Author: Pete Galati
Date: 00:13:37 04/15/00
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On April 15, 2000 at 01:26:08, Miguel A. Guzman wrote: >I have an old Chess Encyclopedia with a 1980 copyright. It has a rather simple >section on computer chess but it states that the first attempt was in the 50’s. >It mentions a Claude E. Shannon as having the basics in 1949 and developing the >program with, if I understand correctly, a brute force approach. Then he started >testing selective search and there the book stops mentioning him. >If you are wondering, no it does not mention the name, if any, of the program. > >Now, anyone knows anything about this Claude E. Shannon? See this page about a book containing his papers http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/shannon.html looking over what's listed, I don't know if Chess was more than just another project for him. His name _allways_ comes up in any mention of computer Chess history. Pete
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