Author: Pete Galati
Date: 08:55:06 04/15/00
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On April 14, 2000 at 19:02:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I'm starting to gather that Chess programs were not generally available to the public until sometime in the '70s. I wasn't interseted in computers at all untill the last decade so I wasn't paying any attention back then. Actually come to think of it, personal computers didn't exist during the '60s, that's something I wasn't considering before. Pete
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