Author: Mark Loftus
Date: 11:28:49 04/03/01
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On April 02, 2001 at 17:21:03, Peter Fendrich 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 > >A good source in this respect, I think, is "Chess Skill in Man and Machine". >It says: >"In the spring of 1968, engineering students Larry Atkin and Keith Gorlen >launched Northwestern University's computer chess program in their spare time. >Later in the year, then physics graduate student David Slate began his own >effort. By mid 1969, the two groups had joined forces and produced their first >successful program, CHESS 2.0. Between 1969 and 1972, CHESS 2.0 was gradually >refined into CHESS 3.6." ... and so on > >//Peter Interesting, so there was a Chess 2.0, I imagine that by "successful" that meant the program could play a game without too many bugs. If there was a Chess 1.X, it may have been developmental. Mark
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