MASTERING THE GAME: HISTORY OF COMPUTER CHESS is an exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountainview, CA....www.computerhistory.org...blogger Joyce Schwarz caught a quick peek at this exhibit after the University Project seminar that was held there in conjunction with "Building Blocks" (www.digitalhollywood.com) earlier this month. We're sharing some of our photos with you here...but good news -- most of the exhibit seems to be online along with a full interactive experience on COMPUTER CHESS.... Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess
Mastering the Game is an exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View that explores computing's five decade quest to build a computer to challenge human players!
The history of computer chess is a five-decade long quest to solve a difficult intellectual problem check out the online exhibit at computerhistory.org or head over to the museum in Mountainview, CA.
FROM 1770 to 1997....THE TURK TO DEEP BLUE
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From something called "THE TURK" back in 1770 to IBM'S DEEP BLUE in 1997...the history of mechanized chess is a long one...with many moves and a broad playing field!
According to the Computer History website: "In a 1949 paper, computer pioneer Claude Shannon said of programming a computer to play chess that “Although of no practical importance, the question is of theoretical interest, and it is hoped that…this problem will act as a wedge in attacking other problems…of greater significance.”
DID YOU KNOW? The first all-computer chess tournament was held at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) annual convention in 1970. By the end of the decade many of the top programs could play “Expert” chess at the USCF 2000 level info directly from the Computer History Museum website....WHEN DEEP BLUE...Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, it was the first and only time a World Chess Champion was defeated by a computer.
Mobile Chess? Play mobile chess with Gary Kasparov Cellphone9 -- yes supposedly according to this link you can actually play with Kasparov via your cell phone? Check it out and let me know if it's true! OR PLAY AGAINST YOUR PALS....Mobile / Wireless Services and Software for Chess
ABOUT.com links us to the following sources online and mobile: ChessEverywhere.com
'Use your mobile phone or wireless Palm OS PDA to match wits with players online, everywhere.' Supports well known phones and servers.
Cotopia Wireless
'Brings you the first multiplayer game platform for mobile phones in Europe. Using our system you can play board games on your mobile phone against other players from all over the world.'
Jive Chess
'JIVE Chess is the first Chess game for mobile phones to feature the powerful 'Deep Junior' Chess engine, running on online servers.'
PhoneChess.com
'The Chess Puzzles Application is designed to allow a user of Palm handhelds to download chess puzzles from the server and solve them while offline.'
FOR MORE INFO ON THE COMPUTER MUSEUM GO TO: Computer History Museum
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