Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:03:04 04/15/00
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On April 15, 2000 at 11:55:06, Pete Galati wrote: >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 'personal computers' (not to be confused with the PC architecture by the same name developed by IBM and cloned by everyone) were not available in the early 70's... 1975-76 saw the first 'viable' machines using the old 808x and z80 processors (and yes, 6502's and 6800's...) But they were dog-slow... In the early 70's _everybody_ used a mainframe, or at least a big minicomputer...
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