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[ Tell Monument [1] Tell,

an early chess program by Johann Joss, who already started chess programming in 1967 on a CDC 1604 A [2]. It played the first two World Computer Chess Championships, the WCCC 1974 in Stockholm and the WCCC 1977 in Toronto, and won the first German computer chess tournament, the First GI Computer Chess Tournament, 1975 in Dortmund [3] [4]. Tell was a small and fast searcher for that time, running on HP 2100, HP 2115 minicomputers, three to eight plies deep with around 100.000 nodes in three minutes [5].

External Links#

Chess Program#

• Tell’s ICGA Tournaments
• Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik, October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
• Tells Geschoß: Schachmatt, October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
• Computerschach: Mini besiegt Maxi, October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)

Misc#

• William Tell from Wikipedia

William Tell (play) Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller (ebook)

• swissinfo - William Tell
• Black Stone Raiders, Tell BluesClub [6], June 04, 2011, YouTube Video

Jean-Paul Bourelly, Darryl Jones, Will Calhoun

References#

1. ↑ Detail from the Statue of William Tell and his son in Altdorf ( Richard Kissling, 1895), William Tell from Wikipedia
2. ↑ Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik, October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
3. ↑ Tells Geschoß: Schachmatt, October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
4. ↑ Computerschach: Mini besiegt Maxi, October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
5. ↑ Karsten Bauermeister (1995). Aufbruchstimmung in Deutschland. Computerschach und Spiele Heft 6, 1995 (German)
6. ↑ Ostermundigen: Im Tell Ostermundigen gibt es keine Rockkonzerte mehr - News Region: Bern & Region, Berner Zeitung, January 31, 2012

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