Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:53:03 05/24/01
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On May 25, 2001 at 00:45:15, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 25, 2001 at 00:34:09, william penn wrote: > >>Does america have the lead, i know that belle was the first master level chess >>computer and americans are the pioneers of computer chess. About the pioneers thing, from Bill Wall's chess history page: 1947 1st computer program for chess specified by A. Turing. 1949 Shannon presents a paper on programming a computer for chess. 1957 Maniac, 1st computer to play a form of chess (6x6 board) 1958 COMPUTER; 1st computer to play chess. 1966 COMPUTER; 1st serious chess program, mac hack, became operational. 1966 COMPUTER; MacHack VI computer played in Boston Amateur Ch; Score 1/2-4 1/2. 1966.11.23 COMPUTER; Start of 1st computer match between USSR and US. 1967 COMPUTER; 1st international match between USSR & US computers. USSR won. 1967 COMPUTER; Machack VI is 1st computer to play in human chess tourney. 1970 COMPUTER; 1st us computer ch, held in ny, won by a machine from northwestern. 1974 COMPUTER; 1st computer world championship held in Stockholm. Won by Caissa. 1976 COMPUTER; 1st chess-playing computers for popular use came on the market. 1977 COMPUTER; Sneaky Pete becomes 1st computer to play in a u.s. open. 1978 COMPUTER; Belle wins 9th North American Computer Chess Ch. 1981 COMPUTER; 1st computer program to win a state ch. - Cray Blitz in Mississipi. 1983 1st time a microcomputer beats a master in tournament play. 1983 1st time computer gains an established master's rating. 1984 1st time a microcomputer won an event with mainframes, in Canada. Some of the firsts were obviously Russian and British. Others may be involved, but I don't know enough about it.
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