Proschabugs
Proscha, (Projekt Schach)
a mainframe chess program written in PL/I for the IBM 370 by a team of students of the University of Dortmund. The project was set up end of 1973 as suggested by professor Volker Claus. The team was headed by Hagen Huwig [1], with Hans-Jürgen Appelrath, K. Behle, L. Franzen, N. Schulz, R. Schulz, W. Teschers and Oliver Vornberger as team members [2]. The aim was not primarily to write a strong chess program but project and team work, structured programming experience, and correctness of the applied algorithms.
Game Play
Volker Claus
A few test games were published in the report, self-play, and one test game versus Volker Claus, time control 45 minutes for the whole game, played via TSO:
First GI Computer Chess
Representing the host university, Proscha played the First GI Computer Chess Tournament [4] [5], lost from Daja and Samiel, and won from Charlie. In one of his algorithm lectures on verification and correctness [6], Oliver Vornberger mentioned a bug in Proscha despite it was extensively tested over one year, which appeared exactly during the first round versus Daja, where Proscha captured its own white king with its own white bishop [7].
Publications
- Hagen Huwig (1975). Bericht über eine Projektgruppe mit dem Thema Schachprogrammierung. Bericht Nr. 9, University of Dortmund (German)
External Links
- Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
References
- ↑ Hans Decker (1998). EinBlick - Ursprünge der Dortmunder Informatik. pdf
- ↑ Hagen Huwig (1975). Bericht über eine Projektgruppe mit dem Thema Schachprogrammierung. Bericht Nr. 9, University of Dortmund (German)
- ↑ Hagen Huwig (1975). Bericht über eine Projektgruppe mit dem Thema Schachprogrammierung. Bericht Nr. 9, University of Dortmund (German)
- ↑ Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
- ↑ Reinhard Zumkeller (1975). Erstes GI Computer-Schach-Turnier, Dortmund 1975, Bulletin, including a paper by Konrad Zuse
- ↑ Vorlesung Algorithmen WS 2014/15, Di, 18.11.2014 Verifikation: partielle Korrektheit, Terminierung, Halteproblem (Algorithmen-Fee), YouTube Video at 8:34
- ↑ Proscha was disrespectful mentioned by Daja author Ludwig Zagler as “bastelprogram” (tinker program) in Schach: Die Zugmaschine Der Spiegel 16/1976, April 12, 1976 (German)