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Subject: Re: Who was the first computer chess programmer?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:55:46 07/15/04

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On July 15, 2004 at 07:39:05, TEERAPONG TOVIRAT wrote:

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>And.. Did he get any consolation prize?
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>Thanks,
>Teerapong


Had to be Claude Shannon.  He wrote _the_ paper on how to do a minimax search to
play chess.  Alpha-beta came  later.

• Re: Who was the first computer chess programmer? Dann Corbit 13:03:04 07/15/04
  • Re: Who was the first computer chess programmer? Rolf Tueschen 15:21:19 07/15/04
  • Re: Who was the first computer chess programmer? Robert Hyatt 15:16:14 07/15/04
  • Re: Who was the first computer chess programmer? Drexel,Michael 13:39:50 07/15/04
    • Re: Who was the first computer chess programmer? Peter Berger 03:43:58 07/16/04
      • Re: Who was the first computer chess programmer? Ingo Bauer 04:36:59 07/16/04
• Re: Oh, I thought is was...... David H. McClain 12:09:03 07/15/04

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