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Automaton Chessplayer
The first chess-playing computer. (Read the full article)
| "It is a pitty that you don't mentioned Leonardo Torre Quevedo playing machine of 1939.
That was the first real chess playing machine that actually worked.
I hope he was not excluded because he was a Spaniard.
Regards,
Omar Vega
" (Omar Vega 10/17/2004 8:02:08 PM ) |
| "what you talkin bout willace" (somone 1/7/2005 9:26:13 AM ) |
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