Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:29:05 11/06/99
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On November 06, 1999 at 20:55:38, Peter Kappler wrote: >On November 06, 1999 at 20:48:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 06, 1999 at 20:28:25, walter irvin wrote: >> >>> >>> i wonder if there was a chess program and programmer hall of fame who whould be >>>there if there could only be 5 ??? >>> >>>1 genius >>>2 deep blue >>>3.hitec >>>4.fritz >>>5.cm series >>> >>>on programmers >>> >>>Lang is main one that comes to mind any body have a suggestion if there could be >>>only 5 ?? >> >> >>The first three would have to be Richard Greenblatt, Dave Slate, and Ken >>Thompson. Nobody else comes close. Beyond that, it is wide open. > > >Bob, would you mind giving a brief history lesson? Why these three, in >particular? > >--Peter I left one off. Here is the 'lesson': 1. Richard Greenblatt, author of "mac hack" a 1500-level program in the middle 1960's. The _first_ program that could really play decent chess and compete with humans, albeit 1500-level humans. 2. Dave Slate, primary author of Chess 3.x and 4.x, which dominated computer (and human) chess thru the 1970's, and he remained active thru the 1980's. They took computer chess to the 2000 level, rating wise, and wrote _the_ paper on computer chess that was published in Frey's book. 3. Ken Thompson. Built the first special-purpose hardware machine and took chess to 2200+. Not to mention his research into endgame databases. 4. Hsu. Accomplished the "ultimate" goal in 1997, after totally dominating computer chess from the late 80's on. I can't think of anybody else that had more influence on computer chess than those four. There were many others that also come to mind, but none that stand out (IMHO) like those 4.
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