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[ The Turk [1] Mr. Turk,
an early chess program by primary authors Gary Boos and James Mundstock at University of Minnesota, written in Fortran to run on a CDC 6600. Mr. Turk participated in the ACM’s Second North American Computer-Chess Championship 1971. It did not use alpha-beta, but a search based on a Multipurpose, Theorem-Proving Heuristic Program as described by James R. Slagle and Philip Bursky in 1968 [2] .
See also
External Links
- The Turk from Wikipedia, the historic fake chess-playing machine
- Ein Türke in Paderborn from ChessBase Nachrichten (German)
References
- ↑ Gaughan’s reconstructed Turk, Source image with L. Stephen Coles: This is a derivative, released under the GFDL and CC, Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ James R. Slagle, Philip Bursky (1968). Experiments With a Multipurpose, Theorem-Proving Heuristic Program. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 1
- ↑ Ben Mittman (1971). Computer Chess Programs (Panel). pdf from The Computer History Museum
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