Author: Peter Berger
Date: 03:43:58 07/16/04
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On July 15, 2004 at 16:39:50, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On July 15, 2004 at 16:03:04, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On July 15, 2004 at 13:55:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On July 15, 2004 at 07:39:05, TEERAPONG TOVIRAT wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>And.. Did he get any consolation prize? >>>> >>>>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. >> >>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. > >This was Konrad Zuse. >Zuse developed and built the first binary digital computer in the world. > >He wrote a program "Plankalkül" that can play chess but unfortunately Zuse >didn´t know all the chess rules. :) Plankalkuel was no chessprogram but a programming language - his chessprogram was one example what it can do. Where does this "he didn't know all the chess rules" come from ? > >Play against the first chess program ever! > >http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Programme/Plankalkuel/Chess/JavaApplet/chess.html
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