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a English-born, Canadian mathematician, chemist, computer scientist and chess programmer. He holds undergraduate degrees from [|Dalhousie University] in Mathematics, Chemistry and Education, and a M.Sc. in Computing Science from University of Alberta, with a thesis titled //A Critique of Programming Techniques for Playing Chess//. As graduate student he started to write his first chess-playing program, and continued his research on techniques for chess and game playing programs of that time, and published several papers on that topic along with Tony Marsland.
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=Early Research= Beside the ideas and incomplete programs by Jack Good and Mikhail Botvinnik, following chess programs were investigated by Paul Rushton and Tony Marsland as published in 1973.
 * Chess 3.5
 * Coko
 * Greenblatt Chess Program
 * NSS
 * Tech
 * Wita

=Restart= Paul Rushton went into business for 27 years but returned to teaching Computing at [|University of the Fraser Valley] in 2000, where he restarted his chess research and the development of a goal-directed knowledge-based chess-playing program that learns, which he continues after his retirement in 2010.

=Selected Publications=
 * Paul Rushton (**1972**). //A Critique of Programming Techniques for Playing Chess//. M.Sc. thesis, University of Alberta
 * Paul Rushton, Tony Marsland (**1973**). //Current Chess Programs: A Summary of their Potential and Limitations//. INFOR Journal of the Canadian Information Processing Society Vol. 11, No. 1, [|pdf]
 * Tony Marsland, Paul Rushton (**1973**). //[|Mechanisms for Comparing Chess Programs].// ACM Annual Conference, [|pdf]
 * Tony Marsland, Paul Rushton (**1973**). //A Study of Techniques for Game-Playing Programs//. Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, No. 2, [|pdf]
 * Tony Marsland, Paul Rushton (**1974**). //A Study of Techniques for Game-Playing Programs//. Advances in Cybernetics and Systems (ed. J. Rose), Vol. 1, pp. 363-371. Gordon & Breach, [|pdf]

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