Mark Hersey

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Mark Hersey,

an American computer scientist and along with Mike Alexander, Fred Swartz, Victor Berman and Jack O’Keefe co-author of the chess program CHAOS [1] from University of Michigan. CHAOS was one of the strongest programs of the 70s and early 80s, using an unique, knowledge based and selective best-first, iterative widening approach [2], keeping the search tree in memory.

• Mark Hersey’s ICGA Tournaments

References#

1. ↑ Chaos’ ICGA Tournaments
2. ↑ The Eleventh ACM’s North American Computer Chess Championship as pdf reprint from The Computer History Museum

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