sad to see this was not chess on an analog computer. now, that would be impressive! one of my late mentors, dr mick bazin (university of london, 1980s), used t

sad to see this was not chess on an analog computer. now, that would be impressive! one of my late mentors, dr mick bazin (university of london, 1980s), used to demonstrate programming bacterial population dynamics on an analog machine - plug-boards, dials and god knows what. as a pretty good digital computing person, i found it all baffling. but nowt to do with the post, i guess.