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I immediately thought of a nice picture in one of Edward Lasker's wonderful autobiographical chess books. Happily google image search retrieves it; https://che
by billforsternz 9y ago
I immediately thought of a nice picture in one of Edward Lasker's wonderful autobiographical chess books. Happily google image search retrieves it;
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Claude+Shannon https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Claude+Shannon
If I remember correctly, this relay based machine mates with king and rook versus bare king (significantly harder than king and queen versus bare king)
- JoeDaDude 9y agoThank you, great picture! Shannon's chess playing machine now resides at the MIT Museum. I was able to include MIT Museum links in the referenced BGG list. See MIT's page about the machine here: https://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?term=Shannon&module=objects&type=keyword&x=0&y=0&kv=86329&record=24&page=1&kv=75597&record=9&module=objects https://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?term=Shannon&module=obj...
- billforsternz 9y agoFor the record, I got my wires crossed - Shannon's chess machine played a variety of endgames. The king + rook versus king machine was another wonderful early contribution, from Spain much earlier in the 20th century; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista