Author: Mark Loftus
Date: 14:29:17 04/03/01
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On April 03, 2001 at 17:04:48, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On April 03, 2001 at 14:28:49, Mark Loftus wrote: > >>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 > >I suspect that the term beta-test wasn't established at that time so 1.X were >beta versions. >As far as I know 2.x was never used in a tournament, if there were any 1969... >The first US computer chess championship was held in N.Y. Sept. 1970 and then >they showed up with Chess 3.0, about a year after Chess 2.0. >Chess 3.0 won! >//Peter So the equivalent of "beta testing" at that time probably amounted to the programmers playing their own programs, and rooting for the program. Mark
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