Computer Chess - New Movie |
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| Monday, 22 July 2013 | ||||||||||||||||
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Synopsis: Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future. Game #1 This was the first recorded chess match played between computer programs. At the height of the cold war, The Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) defeated Kotok-McCarthy at Stanford University by a score of 3 games to 1. The match was played over telegraph and took 9 months to complete. The ITEP chess program ran on a slower Soviet M-20 computer. The Kotok-McCarthy program ran on an IBM 7090. Many of the programmers at ITEP went on to develop the program Kaissa, named after the goddess of chess, which won the first World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm, 1974. Interested? Learn more at the official website, especially the Games section. 
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