Author: James Swafford
Date: 20:17:28 11/07/99
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On November 07, 1999 at 21:09:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] > > >Lang may have dominated the micro programs.. but he _never_ dominated computer >chess. The 'program to beat' went like this: > >1960-1970 MacHack (Greenblatt) >1970-1977 chess x.x (slate) >1977-1979 chess x.x and belle (slate/thompson) >1980-1982 Belle/Chess x.x/Cray Blitz (slate, thompson, hyatt) >1983-1986 Cray Blitz >1987-present deep thought/deep blue (Hsu) > >No other programs were close during those time periods, if you talk about >'micro programs'. > >But as far as folks like "lang" go, how much have they _contributed_ to computer >chess? _zero_. > >Slate wrote the 4.0 article in Chess Skill in Man and Machine, the article that >became the blueprint for _every_ program written. Iterated search, hashing, >killer moves, tip evaluation, etc. The other names I mentioned did the same. > >I look at who 'creates' ideas and then passes them along to others to be >improved/modified/changed/etc. And I look at who produced _results_. It is >difficult to argue with the history of computer chess back to the early 60's, >as the data I gave above can be found in most any good book... > > [snip] By this reasoning, you belong on your own list. :-) I still think you are being modest. -- James
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