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 | | In 1965, the Russian mathematician Alexander Kronrod said, "Chess is the Drosophila of artificial intelligence." However, computer chess has developed much as genetics might have if the geneticists had concentrated their efforts starting in 1910 on breeding racing Drosophila. |
 | | Over the years, the way that artificial intelligence is manifested in chess has been the topic of numerous scholarly articles. |
 | | An excellent source for the history of AI chess, beginning with Baron von Kempelen's infamous Turk (1769) and continuing with descriptions of early contributions to the field by Shannon, Turing, Bernstein, Newell, Shaw, Simon, McCarthy, Greenblatt and others. |
| www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/chess.html (3473 words) |
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