Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:28:14 10/03/00
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On October 03, 2000 at 09:49:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. There is another one written by Ingvi Bjornson, University of Alberta. I didn't come close to spelling that name right, my apologies to Ingvi. bruce > > >> >> >>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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