Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:21:38 10/22/00
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On October 22, 2000 at 09:17:11, Albert Silver wrote: >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 I just read Paulo Soares's post, and can now furnish the name of the author: Alan Turing. > > >>That stuff from a thousand years ago wasn't chess as we play >>it. >> >>Tim "cybernetic man" Frohlick
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