Author: David Blackman
Date: 02:02:55 04/03/01
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On April 02, 2001 at 16:05:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 02, 2001 at 15:57:04, Mark Loftus wrote: > >>I was recently reading about the Slate/Atkin programs, Chess 3.X and Chess 4.X >>and their fine tournament performances in the 1970s. I'd like to know if there >>ever was a Chess 1.0 or 2.0 and if there are any available games from them. >> >>Mark Loftus > > >The first one I saw was chess 3.x, which was replaced by 4.0 around >1974-1975. I think 3.x played in the first ACM tournament about 1970. 4.0 turned up around 72. Slate and Atkin claimed it was a total rewrite without any 3.X code at all, and they started writing it about 3 weeks before the ACM that year. I don't think 1.x or 2.x every played any events. Probably they were just the early rough versions where they managed to build a program that obeyed the rules, didn't excede the time limit, solved mate in 1 etc.
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