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Robbie the Robot versus Dr. Smith: When Silicon First Met Synapse
To wit: “common knowledge” balderdash would have it that the first computer program to play proper chess was the 1996 IBM brainchild Deep Blue. Not only is this a non-fact, it’s simply hogwash.
As anyone who watches re-run television knows, the first machine capable of
pushing wood was the robot aboard the 1965 spacecraft Jupiter II. This
advanced mechanism, affectionately dubbed Robbie by historians, was the
proto-type silicon chess master. When questioned as to why chess was included in his programming, Robbie replied as follows. The Jupiter II did not manage to complete its mission: along with her entire crew, she was lost in space…
Some many years later, however, the starship Enterprise, then commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, recovered a data-box from that ill-fated vessel. Amongst the information therein, there are also several chess games between Robbie and a certain Dr. Zachary Smith.
Here then, in yet another Past Pawns first, I present, with sound file comments by the participants, one of those historic games. Date:
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Robbie’s comment. Dr. Smith’s reply.
Robbie’s comment. Dr. Smith’s reply.
Dr. Smith’s comment. Robbie’s reply.
Robbie’s final comment. Dr. Smith’s reply.
Notes For my confounded, crapulous contemporaries, I provide the following clues: http://www.lostinspacetv.com/index1.html http://home.pacbell.net/thoemke1/berkeleyrobotproject/page1.htm http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/chap5/appendix.html (game notes) http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/HAL.html http://www.2001exhibit.org/stork/HAL.IBM.html http://www.adrianberry.net/art9.htm http://www.palantir.net/2001/sounds.html (sound files) http://www.heptune.com/lis/smith.html (Smith profile) Hal’s comment on this article. A theme.wav you may know…
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