[FRIAM] Chess and Horses

Nothing has appeared here for awhile as far as I know. This morning at "physical" Friam I mentioned that in 1967 a research organization that I worked for hired a young guy as a "runner". He carried boxes of cards and printer output between our offices and the University of Pittsburgh computer ce

Re: [FRIAM] Chess and Horses

After FRIAM, I remembered the name of the USC Chess Player: Albert Zobrist. He invented Zobrist hashing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobrist_hashing ) which is fundamental to all chess playing programs. He created the first go program too (https:

Re: [FRIAM] Chess and Horses

Well done, runner, horse, and canter, all brought together in a short paragraph even if none is a propos the others. BTW, Andy Beyer, the author was a classmate, but I didn’t know him well. —Barry On Jun 1, 2018, 5:51 PM -0400, Frank Wimberly , wrote: > Nothing has appeared here for awhile as f

Re: [FRIAM] Chess and Horses

:-) Frank Wimberly www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 4:35 PM wrote: > Well done, runner, horse, and canter, all brought together in a short > paragraph even if none is a propos the others. >