Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:42:14 01/14/03
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On January 14, 2003 at 21:35:50, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 14, 2003 at 20:30:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I might could scrounge up a z80, but I don't think I have anything that will >>run on it. :) > >IIRC the TI-85 graphing calculator which I have runs on a z80, and there does >exist a chess program for it that I spent much time playing in high school. I >don't think it's from 1978, but I do think it's the only one I could find for my >calculator. I had a Sinclair Zx81 that played chess (1982 though, so too late). I think my Commodore 64 was also newer than that and it used a 6510 (basically a 6502 with one additional instruction). From the Bill Wall page, here is a list of 70's vintage stuff: In 1970 the first all-computer championship was held in New York and won by CHESS 3.0, a program written by Atkin and Gorlen at Northwestern University. Six programs had entered. In 1971 the Institute of Control Science, Moscow, created KAISSA using a British computer to play chess. In 1974 World Correspondence Champion Hans Berliner wrote his PhD dissertation on "Chess Computers as Problem Solving." In 1974 KAISSA won the world computer chess championship held in Stockholm with a perfect 4-0 score. In 1975 Grandmaster David Bronstein used the endgame database in KAISSA to win an adjourned game in a tournament in Vilnius. In 1976 CHESS 4.5 won the Class B section of the Paul Masson tournament in Northern California. The performance rating was 1950. In 1976 a computer program was used to make the chess pairings at the chess olympiad in Haifa. In 1977 the first microcomputer chess playing machine, CHESS CHALLENGER, was created. The International Computer Chess Association (ICCA) was founded by computer chess programmers. It has about 400 members. In 1977 CHESS 4.5 won the Minnesota Open winning 5 games and losing one. It had a performance rating of 2271. Stenberg (1969) became the first Class A player to lose to a computer. In 1977 SNEAKY PETE was the first chess computer to play in a U.S. Open, held in Columbus, Ohio. In 1977 Michael Stean became the first grandmaster to lose to a computer; it was a blitz game. In 1978 SARGON won the first tournament for microcomputers, held in San Jose. David Levy collected his 10 year bet by defeating CHESS 4.7 in Toronto with the score of 3 wins and one draw. The drawn game was the first time a computer drew an international master. Computer chess experts predicted that a computer would be world chess champion in 10 years.
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