Bebe (chess program)

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Bebe (also Be-Be ) is a chess program from the 1980s.

history

Bebe was created from around 1980 by the American developer couple Tony and Linda Scherzer . After initially using the 8-bit Z80 microprocessor from the American company Zilog as hardware , they ported their software to the then modern bit-slice technology and used the Am2900 - ALU from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) . Bebe adopted in October 1983 at the 4th World Computer Chess Championship ( World Computer Chess Championship WCCC) in New York and took second place behind the supercomputer Cray Blitz .

The Scherzers then implemented a learning function that was unique at the time and that used hash tables in the middlegame . At the 5th World Computer Chess Championship , Bebe finished tied (4 out of 5) with the renewed world champion Cray Blitz in third place.

literature

Frederic Friedel : World Championship in New York in Computer Chess International (CSI), No. 4, 1983, pp. 10-11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 4th WCCC New York 1983 from schach-computer.info, accessed on November 24, 2017
  2. Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer and Dean Tjaden: Learning in Bebe. in Computers, Chess, and Cognition , Springer-Verlag New York 1990, pp. 197-216, ISBN 978-1-4613-9082-4
  3. Computer Chess World Cup in Computer Chess and Games (CSS), No. 3, 1986, p. 18 / XII
  4. 5th WCCC Cologne 1986 at schach-computer.info, accessed on November 24, 2017