USC CP

[ Tommy Trojan the USC mascot [1] USC CP,

the University of Southern California chess program by Albert Zobrist and Frederic Roy Carlson, assisted by chess master Charles Kalme. It participated at two ACM North American Computer Chess Championships, ACM 1972 and ACM 1973. The USC program uses a scoring function that gives credit for having certain patterns present at the board. At time of the ACM 1972, the program searched for about 45 different patterns. The program is structured so that additional patterns can be easily added by a chess player unfamiliar with the details of the program [2].

Publications

Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1973). The USC chess program. Proceedings of the ACM annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia
Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1973). An Advice-Taking Chess Computer. Scientific American, Vol. 228, No. 6, pp. 92-105.
Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1977). Detection of Combined Occurrences. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 31-35.

↑ Trojan Shrine, also known as Tommy Trojan at the University of Southern California, image by Rg998, June 16, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, Tommy Trojan from Wikipedia
↑ Monroe Newborn (1975). Computer Chess. Academic Press, New York, N.Y., Chapter VII. The Third United States Computer Chess Championship
↑ Albert L. Zobrist, Fredric R. Carlson (1973). The USC chess program. Proceedings of the ACM annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, August 27-29, 1973