Charlie+Wilkes


 * Home * People * Charlie Wilkes**

an American chess programmer, together with his father Charles F. Wilkes author of the chess program The Fox. Inspired by the [|George R. R. Martin] essay //The Computer Was A Fish// in [|Analog Science Fiction and Fact], August 1972, concerning the early ACM Tournaments, they soon started to write an own chess program in APL, without knowledge of how others had to that point programmed. They invented their own equivalent to alpha-beta pruning.
 * Charlie Wilkes**,

Charlie, at that time just entering [|The College of William & Mary] was already an experienced APL programmer by Saturday  programming sessions in his father's office at IBM. The Fox played the 4th ACM 1973 on an IBM 370-145 with a win against Tech 2 in the first round, but suffered from too many users on their [|timesharing system] on Monday, where they lost both games due to time forfeit.

=References= =What links here?= include page="Charlie Wilkes" component="backlinks" limit="20"
 * Up one level**