"A Chess-Playing Machine", Claude E. Shannon, Scientific American 182(2), February, 1950.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....to pursue aspects of intelligence which could be viewed, at least in his opinion, as purely symbolic. Minimax search, augmented with the idea of pursuing chains of capture to quiescence, and clever static evaluation functions (the Turochamp system of David Champernowne and Alan Turing 7 , Shannon 50] soon became the dominant approach to the problem. Newell, Shaw and Simon 58] compared all four known implemented chess playing programs of 1958 (with a total combined experience of six games played) including Turochamp, and they all followed this approach. The basic approach of minimax with a ....

"A Chess-Playing Machine", Claude E. Shannon, Scientific American 182(2), February, 1950.

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