Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 03:50:36 05/25/01
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On May 25, 2001 at 00:53:03, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. > The first chess program was written by Konrad Zuse, long before 1947. http://www.zib.de/zuse/ José. >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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