Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:49:41 10/03/00
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On October 03, 2000 at 09:36:37, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >Hi I just discovered on the britannica on line that "Mephisto" was the name of a >fake automatic chess playing machine, the last incarnation of the famous Turc. >This suggests that the various Mephitos around got the name from this. > >Is there any other origin of computer chess anmes which is historically >particularly interesting/tricky? > >By the way did anybody ever creatre a program called Turc? Yes. I don't remember who, but there was a "turk" playing in the 1970's. > > >The link is: >http://search.britannica.com/search?query=chess e very interestin page > > >I found a very interesting info about a real playing machine that was invented >as far as in 1890 and was able to play some endgames. I always tought that the >oldest automatic "chess" machine was also the first computer chess programm, a >program running on the computers of Los Alamos in the 50s and able to play a >Bishop-less chess on a 6x6 board. > >regards >Franz
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