Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 12:46:07 07/24/04
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On July 23, 2004 at 17:42:57, Jon Dart wrote: >On July 23, 2004 at 14:25:08, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > >> Please see ==> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=79388&pid2=19233 > >Greenblatt's program was one of the really early computer chess >efforts. I believe it was a highly selective searcher (Shannon Type B). > >According to this site, >http://www.oellermann.com/cftchess/notes/history.html >it searched about 10 nodes/second. Not enough to beat Bobby Fischer. > >But it also played in the Massachusetts state chess championship >in the 1960's. > >Greenblatt also was one of the authors of TECO (anybody besides >me old enough to have actually used it?) and was involved in >building LISP machines at MIT in the 70's with Richard Stallman. > >--Jon Yes of course. And his CHEOPS chess machine was interesting. I remember playing against it in 1979 and wondering why a hardware machine wouldn't play better with those depths. Due to material-only evaluation function I believe. Later he tried integrating CHEOPS with MACHACK but the combination was not as good as expected even though you had brains (MACHACK) and speed (CHEOPS). Stuart
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