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Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning
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Mihail Moiseevich Botvinnik is an electrical engineer by profession; during World War II he headed a high-tension laboratory in the Urals and was decorated by the USSR for his accomplishments. At present, he is the head of the alternating-current machine laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering. He is also a world-renowned chess player. He was born in 1911,
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Paperback, 90 pages
Published
July 8th 1970
by Springer
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Mikhail Botvinnik was one of the greatest chess players of all time, and famous for his logical, scientific approach to the game. He was also an expert on electrical engineering, with a doctorate to his credit. So he should be the ideal person to develop a computer chess program?
Alas, the answer appears to be no. When I first read this book, as a teenager, I assumed I was just not smart enough to get it. When I read it again, in my 20s, I knew a little about AI, and was disappointed that it stil ...more
Alas, the answer appears to be no. When I first read this book, as a teenager, I assumed I was just not smart enough to get it. When I read it again, in my 20s, I knew a little about AI, and was disappointed that it stil ...more
Refreshing antidote to the modern obsession with brute-force in chess computing. Still thinking about it.
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