Workshop Report on New Technologies for Chess

Anthony Marsland
1989 ICGA Journal  
As reported in the December 1988 issue, the Nineteenth NACCC was held at the recent Supercomputing Conference, Orlando, Florida. As part of the event, a successor to the previous years' workshop [3] was held. The theme reflected both the nature of the hosting conference and the continuing impact of technology on the improved performance of chess programs. The moderator opened the session by briefly reviewing the highlights of the previous workshop, drawing the listener's attention particularly
more » ... o the contributions of those who were not present this year. He cited the work of Ken Thompson, who had described a hardware-software system for reliably transcribing game listings in chess books into machine readable form, thus making it possible to correct and improve standard reference works. Another contributor, Danny Kopec and his group at the University of Maine, explained how they brought expert system techniques to bear on the analysis of difficult standard endgames. Finally, Burt Wendroff's interesting talk on problems with the standard implementation of transposition tables was recalled. An extended version of that talk appeared in a later issue of the journal[6].
doi:10.3233/icg-1989-12116 fatcat:46qbwqtfwveajnbt54hxmkog5y