Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:17:11 10/22/00
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On October 22, 2000 at 02:38:30, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>On October 22, 2000 at 01:59:31, Gregor Overney wrote:
>
>>How old is computer chess? 17th or 18th century?
>>
>>BTW. How old is chess?
>>
>>Gregor
>
>Computer chess as we understand it today is a mid to late 20th century
>phenomenon. Chess as it is played today is only a hundred years old. By that I
>mean--chess with clocks and time limits plus the "modern" understanding of
>attack and defense.
Why would the definition of computer chess depend on these factors at all? As
far as I'm concerned, 'computer chess' is essentially any automated chess player
that plays/generates its moves on its own. For example, the Turk was the first
advertised such opponent, but in fact it was a very fancy circus act. I seem to
remember a story (the details escape me now) in which a scientist put together a
first chess program _before_ the advent of a machine that could actually run his
code. So its first game was played on paper against some colleagues of the
author's, at a very slow pace, as he calculated the program's next move. I
somehow doubt he achieved a very high NPS. :-)
Albert
>That stuff from a thousand years ago wasn't chess as we play
>it.
>
>Tim "cybernetic man" Frohlick
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