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History of Computer Chess - about ancient programs, computer chess pioneers and chess programming history.
Early Theorists
Ernst Zermelo
1871 - 1953
Norbert Wiener
1894 - 1964
John von Neumann
1903 - 1957
Konrad Zuse
1910 - 1995
Alan Turing
1912 - 1954
Claude Shannon
1916 - 2001
Famous Historic Computers and Programs
| Computer - Program | Author(s) | Year | Features
Famous Matches
- Stanford-ITEP Match
- Levy versus Chess 1978
- Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1996
- Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1997
The Machine Tournaments
- ACM North American Computer Chess Championship since 1970
- World Computer Chess Championship since 1974
People
Pioneers in Computer Chess and Artificial Intelligence:
- Georgy Adelson-Velsky
- Alex Bernstein
- Mikhail Botvinnik
- Alexander Brudno
- Edward Feigenbaum
- Edward Fredkin
- Jack Good
- Donald Knuth
- Alexander Kronrod
- John McCarthy
- Donald Michie
- Marvin Minsky
- Tihamér Nemes
- John von Neumann
- Allen Newell
- John Pasta
- Dietrich Prinz
- Arthur Samuel
- Claude Shannon
- Cliff Shaw
- Mikhail R. Shura-Bura
- Herbert Simon
- Christopher Strachey
- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
- Alan Turing
- Stanislaw Ulam
- Norbert Wiener
- Ernst Zermelo
- Konrad Zuse
Chess Programming History
- History of Minimax
- History of Alpha-Beta
- History of Principal Variation Search
- History of Retrograde Analysis
- Bitboard History
- History of Null Move Pruning
Museums
related to Computer Chess History:
See also
Publications
- David Heath, Derek Allum (1997). The Historical Development of Computer Chess and its Impact on Artificial Intelligence. Deep Blue versus Kasparov, AAAI Workshop, pdf
- Alexander Reinefeld (2005). Die Entwicklung der Spielprogrammierung: Von John von Neumann bis zu den hochparallelen Schachmaschinen. slides as pdf, Themen der Informatik im historischen Kontext Ringvorlesung an der HU Berlin, 02.06.2005 (English paper, German title)
- Jill Cirasella, Danny Kopec (2006). The History of Computer Games. CUNY Academic Works
- Dag Spicer, Kirsten Tashev (2006). The Quest to build a Thinking Machine - A History of Computer Chess. Core 5.1 a publication of The Computer History Museum
- Jaap van den Herik (2018). From Shannon to Turing to DeepMind. CG 2018 Keynote Lecture, an elaboration of the keynote lecture as
Jaap van den Herik (2018). Computer chess: From idea to DeepMind. ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3
- Jonathan Schaeffer (2020). Fifty years of computer chess. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3
- Jonathan Schaeffer (2020). The 1970 United States computer chess championship: The start of the longest-running experiment in computer science history. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3 » ACM 1970
Forum Posts
- What Chess programs existed in the ’60s? by Pete Galati, CCC, April 13, 2000
- Computer Chess History, a lot of links inside by Vincent Lejeune, January 04, 2013
- Checkmate: IBM’s Deep Blue Team Discuss the World Comp Chess by Vincent Lejeune, July 30, 2013
- Old programs CHAOS and USC by Eugene Piercy, CCC, July 11, 2015
Re: Old programs CHAOS and USC by Dann Corbit, CCC, July 11, 2015
- The mystery of Alex Bernstein by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, June 06, 2019 » Alex Bernstein
- Widely unknown pioneering chess “paper machine” by Gunter Sсhliebs by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, June 06, 2019
External Links
History of AI
- History of artificial intelligence from Wikipedia » Artificial Intelligence
- History of Artificial Intelligence from Stottler Henke, Inc.
- Short History of Computing, AI and Robotics by Philipp Schaumann
- The “Modern” History of Artificial Intelligence and Programs from Neuroscience Of Intelligence
- Early History Artificial Intelligence and Games
History of Computer Chess
- Classic Computer Chess - … The programs of yesteryear by Carey, hosted by the Internet Archive [1]
- Computer chess chronology (1729-2011) in Wikipedia
- Core 5.1 Computer Chess (pdf) from The Computer History Museum
- Computer Chess: The Drosophila of AI by L. Stephen Coles, October 30, 2002, Dr. Dobbs
- Chess Computers - The UK Story from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
- Computer Chess History Pages, CSVN
- Competitions, Controversies, and Computer Chess (pdf) by Michael Brudno (May 2000)
- Les premiers automates, blitzchess.fr (French)
- Historic Pictures from the Rebel site of Ed Schröder
- History of Computer Chess from The Computer History Museum
- The History of Computer Chess - an AI Perspective, September 08, 2005, The Computer History Museum, YouTube Video no longer available [2]
Murray Campbell, Edward Feigenbaum, David Levy, John McCarthy, Monty Newborn
- A Brief History of Computer Chess | The Best Schools by Erik J. Larson
- “20 Halbzüge nach 30 Millionen Jahren” by Stephan Oliver Platz, ChessBase Nachrichten, November 20, 2017 (German) incorporated in
TCEC: Superfinal Houdini vs Komodo by Stephan Oliver Platz, ChessBase News, November 23, 2017 » TCEC Season 10
- The History of Computer Chess - Part 1 - The ‘Mechanical’ Turk by Simon Williams, Chess.com, May 31, 2019
- The History of Computer Chess - Part 2 - Turochamp by Simon Williams, Chess.com, July 15, 2019 » Turochamp
- The History of Computer Chess - Part 3 - Alex Bernstein by Simon Williams, Chess.com, August 31, 2019 » Alex Bernstein
- The History of Computer Chess - Part 4 - Alex Bernstein continued… by Simon Williams, Chess.com, September 28, 2019
Computer Chess - A Movie
Compter Chess - A Movie by Andrew Bujalski, Sundance Film Festival, 2013 [3]
The United States Chess Federation - A New Lens on Computer Chess by Dr. Alexey Root, August 14, 2011
The United States Chess Federation - The Making of Computer Chess by Dr. Alexey Root, July 17, 2013
Computer Chess Official Trailer 1 (2013) - Comedy Movie HD, YouTube Video
Checkmate: Members of IBM’s Deep Blue Team Discuss the World of Computer Chess, June 1, 2013 » Murray Campbell, Deep Blue
References
- ↑ Re: Old programs CHAOS and USC by Dann Corbit, CCC, July 11, 2015
- ↑ An Oldie but a Goodie by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, August 16, 2008
- ↑ Computer Chess – the movie, ChessBase News, January 21, 2013