Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:20:05 06/18/03
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On June 18, 2003 at 07:36:24, Terry Giles wrote:
>"The weakest player ever to develop a strong chess program was Claude Jarry.
>Jarry developed L'EXCENTRIQUE while an undergraduate student at McGill in the
>late 1970s. L'EXCENTRIQUE's shining moment came at the 1980 World Championship
>in Linz, Austria where it defeated the reigning World Champion CHESS 4.9 in the
>first round. Jarry a fantastic programmer, knew so little about chess that the
>only way he could tell whether L'EXCENTRIQUE was winning or losing was by
>reading the score provided by the program after each move."
>
>'How Computers play Chess' (Newborn and Levy)
:-)))) That's priceless.
Albert
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