Author: Derek Jackson
Date: 00:33:42 09/21/98
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On September 20, 1998 at 16:36:02, Jim Phillips wrote: >The Oct and Nov 1978 issues of Byte Magazine contained several articles >on computer chess programming - including a two-part article by none other >than the Spracklens, detailing their Sargon program. These articles are >historically significant to the interests of the CCC. What's more, even >today the information they contain is meaty and relevant. > >I have these articles; the Oct 1978 issue was my introduction to computer >chess. I have looked on the Internet and it appears that these texts are >not available anywhere for downloading. > >I have e-mailed a request to Byte Magazine asking their permission to upload >these very interesting articles. Assuming I get their permission, I have >some questions: > > 1) Are they already available at an Internet site I don't know about? > > 2) Does the CCC have an Archive page that I could upload to? > > 3) Although I am a fast typist, the job will require some hours of work. > Does anyone want to see these texts? (I think I know what the answer > to that one will be... :)) > >I am crossing my fingers.... 8^| >-Jim Phillips I have copies of these articles too, and they were very helpful when I started chess programming. Have you seen the articles by Peter Frey and Larry Atkin in Byte Oct, Nov and Dec 1978 and Jan 1979. Oct 1978 is an introduction to chess programming. Nov and Dec 1978 are a working program, Chess 0.5, in PASCAL (albeit rather dated now). Jan 1979 looks to the future and IMHO is still not entirely out of date. I have tried some of the ideas on goal-directed search and they do have some positive effects. Derek Jackson
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