Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:51:03 12/13/01
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On December 13, 2001 at 13:25:23, David Dory wrote: >>Chess is a disappointingly simple game, even a human beginner >>>can create a master-level chess program. >>> >>>Tord >> >> >> >>Actually it happened already. I guess it was around 1980, a guy who barely knew >>how to move the pieces created a program that took a good place (or even won) in >>the World Computer Chess Championship. >> >>Maybe Bob remembers. I seem to remember the guy was canadian. The name of his >>program was maybe Chaos or something like that. >> >> >> >> Christophe > >That would be Claude Jarry who could only tell how his program "L'Excentrique" >was doing by looking at the printout from the program. > >Nevertheless, his program defeated the then world champ CHESS 4.9 in the first >round in the World Championships in Austria, 1980, so it was certainly strong! > >Dave YES, EXACTLY! I am unforgiveable for forgetting that his program had a french name! Is it that I'm getting old? Oops... Christophe
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