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

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 06:55:33 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?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Pete

From what I can remember, he just wrote his evaluation steps on paper and then
weighed each move according to how many factors in his eval that hit the most.
It sounded just like todays programs but he did it all by hand.
Bill




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