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Subject: Re: How did Alen Turning's program work?

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 04:43:51 04/21/00

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On April 20, 2000 at 19:51:02, Pete Galati wrote:

>I've seen Alen Turning's Chess program that only existed on paper mentioned a
>few times, but I don't think I've seen any mention of how it actually worked.
>
>Has his program ever been published?

I'm very interested in this subject of reviving old programs. After a little
search I was able to dig out the original papers by Kotok and Bloom (in the form
of bitmap scanned pages!) but it seems I'm missing a couple of additional pages
which contained moves from actual games, a very useful thing for testing. If
there's enough information available it could be possible to write a program
that plays (more or less) the same even if the original code is not available.

Sorry if I haven't answered your question... I'm looking for info too!



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