Socrates (chess program)

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Socrates (named after the Greek philosopher Socrates ) was a chess program , which in the 1990s by the American computer scientist Don Dailey (1956-2013) and his compatriot Larry Kaufman (born 1947) was developed and in the 1993 North American Computer Chess Championship won .

history

GM Patrick Wolff (left) in the game against Socrates served by Don Dailey at the 1992 Harvard Cup

Socrates was for that time very common computer - operating system, DOS developed and ran on standard PCs . After its first, rather modest appearance at the 21st  North American Computer Chess Championship in 1990, its finest hour came three years later when it was able to distance the previous year's winners HiTech and Deep Thought and was the first and only PC program to win the title of North American Computer Chess Master could.

At the Harvard Cup , a "man against machine" tournament that was organized annually from 1989 to 1995 by Harvard University and took place in Boston or New York City , Socrates beat American grandmaster Patrick Wolff  (picture) in 64 in 1992 Trains.

literature

  • Socrates' Lehr- und Wanderjahre in Computerschach & Spiele (CSS), No. 4, 1993, pp. 9-11
  • Socrates at the 23rd ACM tournament in CSS, No. 4, 1993, pp. 11-12
  • Socrates revved up in CSS, No. 2, 1995, p. 45

Web links

  • Socrates on ChessProgramming Wiki , accessed November 29, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name obliges in Computerschach & Spiele (CSS), No. 4, 1993, p. 11
  2. ^ Socrates at the 23rd ACM tournament in CSS, No. 4, 1993, p. 12
  3. ↑ ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall.Retrieved November 29, 2017
  4. ↑ Harvard Cup 1992 in the ChessProgramming Wiki, accessed on November 30, 2017