ChipTest

ChipTest was a special chess calculator , which was developed from 1985 by Feng-hsiung Hsu , Thomas Anantharaman and Murray Campbell at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , and which won the North American Computer Chess Championship in 1987 .

history

ChipTest used a special hardware - "machine", which relied on fast brute force ( German  "brute force" ) instead of intelligent algorithms and was similar to other chess computers of the time, such as Bebe , Belle or HiTech . ChipTest was in direct competition with the latter, which was developed at the same university by Hans Berliner and his team .

He is the direct predecessor of Deep Thought , the computer chess world champion of 1989 and can be called "grandfather" Deep Blue to be construed, the supercomputer , the 1996 world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a match with regular time controls slapped and 1997 it in the historic contest over six games under Tournament conditions defeated.

literature

Super machine with Elo 2500 in Computer Chess & Games (CSS), No. 4, 1988, p. 38

Web links

• ChipTest in the ChessProgramming Wiki , accessed on November 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Super machine with Elo 2500 in CSS, No. 4, 1988, p. 38