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Chess Films & Documentaries Through the Eyes of a Chess Player

The match happened in 1997, till that point no computer ever defeated a human world champion in chess. So it was a big deal when it finally ...

7 Fun and Funky Vintage Chess Computers | PCMag

Boris the Talking Chess Computer (1977) ... As one of the world's first chess computers, Boris feels primitive today. But it packed several ...

Computer Chess Timeline

It used a mechanical arm to make its moves, and electrical sensors to detect its opponent's replies in a King vs. King + Rook endgame. The writer of a ...

The weird and wonderful history of chess-playing robots | Arduino Blog

... first commercially available chess robot came into being. It was based on a chess computer called Boris and was extremely rare and limited ...

Ken, Unix and Games - Nokia Bell Labs

Ken's computer chess interest began early--he wrote a chess-playing program mentioned in Unix's first edition manual (1971). This earliest effort was purely in ...

How to Beat your Chess Computer

It was played in the Nir Ganim tournament with a time control of 15 minutes +10 seconds per move. 1...Nf6 2.Nf3 c6 3.b3 d5 4.Bb2 First of all, it is quite good ...

My chess computers

1978, a high school friend of mine owned a Chess Challenger 10, and that was the first time I encountered a chess computer. A marvelous device coming from ...

The King Performance Chess Computer

The King Performance contains the legendary chess program The King by Johan de Koning. With its classic, harmonious design in a 40 cm real wood frame, it is the ...

Improve your chess with Boris Gelfand (1/2) - ChessBase

In this first part we ask Boris about how he became such a strong blindfold player, how one should work on the three phases of the game, his ...

In 1983, This Bell Labs Computer Was the First Machine to Become ...

While working on his Ph.D. in the early 1940s, the German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse used computer chess as an example for the high-level ...

Chafitz Boris Diplomat (1979) Electronic Travel Chess Computer ...

BORIS DIPLOMAT'S design encourages mobile chess playing. The peg-in chess pieces will not slip off the board, losing a hard won position, if the unit is moved.

Is Your New Trainer Boris Gelfand? - US Chess Federation

Boris is able to stick to (positional) principles at the highest level, while so many top 20 players seem to play mainly according to ...

The Evolution of Chess AI - Fluency M&C Saatchi

In 1979, Ken Thompson (creator of the programming language B) developed the machine Belle, the first chess engine to have a master-level FIDE rating of 2150.

No Regrets: Boris Spassky at 60 - Kingpin Chess Magazine

And when a poor man becomes the king (by my convictions I am a monarchist) disaster may befall the kingdom. I remember during the first match that each time I ...

Pity the Poor Chess Computer Buyer - Schachcomputer.info Wiki

However, it wasn't until Fidelity Electronics introduced the Chess Challenger "7" that the market exploded. For the very first time the " ...

An Introduction to Computer Chess

History of Computer Chess ... In 1950, the first computer chess program was written by Alan Turing, a British researcher who pioneered the field of digital ...

Computer chess—the first moments | The Turing Guide

In a New York TV studio on the thirty-ninth floor of a Seventh Avenue skyscraper, IBM's chess computer DeepBlue crushed Kasparov in 1997 (see Ch. 27). Fifteen ...

Sargon: A Computer Chess Program | Mastering the Game

Sargon was a line of chess-playing software for personal computers. The initial version written by Dan and Kathe Spracklen, was introduced at the 1978 West ...

Deep Blue | IBM Supercomputer, Artificial Intelligence & Machine ...

Deep Blue, computer chess-playing system designed by IBM in the early 1990s. As the successor to Chiptest and Deep Thought, earlier purpose-built chess ...

Sargon 1978 UCI Available - TalkChess.com

It was my first chess software that wasn't in a dedicated chess computer. So here ya go: Main Tarrasch GUI Website ---->> http://www.triplehappy.com/ Link ...