Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 01:45:13 10/23/00
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On October 22, 2000 at 22:57:27, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >>>How old is computer chess? 17th or 18th century? >> >>Computer Chess History >>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm > >Computer chess has a much richer and even longer history >than mentioned by others in this thread and on the WWW page >listed above. > > * around 1750(?): Torres y Quevedo built a mechanical device > that played the endgame KRK perfectly > > * around 1850(?): Charles Babbage outlined plans for yet did > not actually build his so-called "Analytical > Engine" which was the first programmable > general-purpose computer so to speak. His > co-worker Lady Ada Lovelace (gave name to > programming language "Ada") wrote programs > for this machine, including a perceived > chess program or at least ideas therefor. > > * around 1940(?): Konrad Zuse developed his "Plankalkuel" > formalism which probably was the first > high-level programming language. He also > wrote a "Plankalkuel" chess program, a > Java-applet simulation of which is actually > available somewhere on the WWW (sorry, I > forgot the URL). > >Moreover, the founding fathers of cybernetics and economics >deliberated extensively about the possibilities of how to make >a machine play chess at the beginning of the 20th century. The >best-known example in this respect is Norbert Wiener. > >So much from the top of my head. I hope I got the time numbers >about right ... > >=Ernst= Do you know where I can find more information on that subject? I like a lot to know regarding the origin of the things. Paulo
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