Mr.+Turk

an early chess program written in Fortran by Gary Boos and James Mundstock from the [|University of Minnesota] on a CDC 6600, which participated in the ACM's Second North American Computer-Chess Championship 1971. It did not use alpha-beta, but a search based on a //Multipurpose, Theorem-Proving Heuristic Program// as described by James R. Slagle and Philip Bursky in 1968. || toc =Description= by Gary J. Boos from Ben Mittman's 1971 Panel :
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 * [[image:TurkSColes.jpg link="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TurkSColes.jpg"]] ||~  || **Mr. Turk**,
 * [|Gaughan's] reconstructed Turk ||~  ||^   ||

=See also=
 * Iron Fish
 * Kempelen
 * The Baron
 * The Turk

=External Links=
 * [|The Turk from Wikipedia], the historic fake chess-playing machine
 * [|Ein Türke in Paderborn] from ChessBase Nachrichten (German)

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