Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite dream project of mathematical thinkers is a chess-playing machine. None has been built that will play a full game without human help, but the development of monster electronic computers offers hope that they can be "programmed" (instructed) to match the best moves of a skillful human chess player...
...leading authority on the subject, Dr. Claude E. Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories, believes that a computer can play-theoretically-a perfect (unbeatable) game of chess. But on the practical side, no existing or projected computer is fast enough to make the calculations. In planning a typical 40-move game, he figures, the machine would have to make 10¹²º (10 followed by 119 zeros) calculations. Even at the lightning speed of electronic computers, the job would take 1090 years before the machine could make the first move...
...would be easier, says Shannon, to make a machine play a fair game of chess, seeing three moves ahead and avoiding obvious bad strategy. Such a machine would play rapidly and would have no mental lapses. It would never get lazy or nervous. On the other hand, it would lack flexibility, imagination and the valuable human ability to learn by experience. It would never beat a good player...
Tyrannous Child. The entire color uproar was brewed inside the head of slim, pensive Dr. Peter Carl Goldmark, 44, who plays bad chess and good cello, is described by a friend as "part child and part tyrant." Goldmark was discovered by the far-ranging Paul Kesten who,-in 1936, thought CBS should know something about the new medium of television. Peter Goldmark, educated as a physicist in Vienna and Berlin, had already done some TV work in Britain and seemed just the man. Since CBS hired him, the network has invested more than $3,000,000 in his projects...
...chess team beat the Wells Chess Club, 4 to 1, yesterday in Boston. Yank Wyse, Charlie Cutler, Larry Caster, and Allen Calhamer...