Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 04:58:11 08/13/04
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On August 13, 2004 at 04:45:33, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On August 13, 2004 at 03:54:47, Alessandro Scotti wrote: > >>For easier reading, I have converted Shannon famous paper to PDF format and >>modified it to use algebraic notation: >> >>http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/Shannon%20-%20Programming%20a%20computer%20for%20playing%20chess.pdf >> >>Maybe you'll find it useful too: all other versions I could find on the net were >>more or less in plain text and would not print well. (The figures are still >>missing but fortunately the text is clear enough.) >> >>I am not aware of copyright issues with this document, if you think it shouldn't >>be published on a web site please let me know. > >Thanks! >It's very entertaining and enlightening to read these pioneer chess program >theories. Normally they had to testrun there programs with paper and pen. >Programming at that time didn't offer developing environments and debugging >tools of today. > >When Shannon wrote this, many of the parents to the readers of this forum weren't >even born! > >/Peter And those lucky parents like my father who is still alive, didn't have a clue of what a computer was, or what was their purpose. Now my father who was born back in 1931 with 73 years can read my E-mail and is very capable of playing a novice program rated around 1700. Thanks to the pioneering effort of Mr. Shannon :-) Jorge
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