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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:03:04 07/15/04

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On July 15, 2004 at 13:55:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

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

This says Turning was before Shannon:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm

I seem to remember someone called 'Zeiss' (or something similar) who wrote a
computer chess program in 1947.  But I might be misremembering.

• 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

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