Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ddnt.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!ddnt!jrc From: jrc@ddnt.UUCP Newsgroups: net.chess Subject: Re: Why can't a machine be World's Check Message-ID: <4900001@ddnt.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 07:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ddnt.4900001 Posted: Mon Aug 5 07:07:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 05:04:12 EDT References: <474@oakhill.UUCP> Lines: 5 Nf-ID: #R:oakhill:-47400:ddnt:4900001:000:228 Nf-From: ddnt!jrc Aug 5 07:07:00 1985 Samuels (Samuelson?) had a checker program in the mid-fifties which ran on an IBM 704, I think. It played a quite good game, they said. It had an adaptive evaluation function so that it was self improving. Check the literature.