Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 18:06:03 04/06/03
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On April 06, 2003 at 11:44:56, Manfred Rosenboom wrote: >On April 06, 2003 at 01:19:17, Sune Larsson wrote: > >> Regarding your first question - Mikhail died 1995, 83 years old - but >> will always be alive in our memories. > >Regarding the second question: > >Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik >"Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning" >Springer Verlag, January 1970 > >Manfred A later, larger work in English is: Chess: Solving Inexact Search Problems Mikhail M. Botvinnik, A. Brown (Translator) Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. Series: Symbolic Computation Series ISBN: 0387908692 Format: Hardcover, 158pp Pub. Date: November 1983 It's out of print, but available used, for example at Barnes&Noble.com (http://bn.com). Botvinnik's test chess program "Pioneer" never competed in any events. He seemed oblivious to the enormous computing resources it would have required. (Odd, because he was trained as an electrical engineer.) His last paper about the program in the ICCA Journal was criticized because there was doubt that it could have solved a problem in the way he described. IIRC, he had a protege who was going to write a book about extending its methods, but nothing ever appeared. Botvinnik also had some stuff about computer chess in his autobiography "Achieving the Aim" (Pergamon, 1981), but not enough for us programmers. -- Walter
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