Tell

an early chess program by Johann Joss, who already started chess programming in 1967 on a [|CDC I604 A]. It played the first two World Computer Chess Championships, the WCCC 1974 in [|Stockholm] and the WCCC 1977 in [|Toronto], and won the first German computer chess tournament, the First GI Computer Chess Tournament, 1975 in [|Dortmund]. Tell was a small and fast searcher for that time, running on HP 2100, HP 2115 [|minicomputers], three to eight plies deep with around 100.000 nodes in three minutes. || toc =WCCC '74 game= This sample game from the WCCC 1974, Freedom versus Tell ended in a draw by threefold repetition, where Tell in an otherwise won position was likely not aware of: code [Event "WCCC 1974"] [Site "Stockholm, Sweden"] [Date "1974.08.08"] [Round "4"] [White "Freedom"] [Black "Tell"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]
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 * [[image:220px-Wilhelm_Tell_Denkmal_Altdorf_um_1900_Detail.jpg link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell"]] ||~ || **Tell**,
 * [|Tell Monument] ||~ ||^ ||

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d5 Ne5 5.f4 Nd7 6.e4 Nb6 7.Be3 Qd6 8.e5 Qb4 9.e6 fxe6 10.dxe6 Bxe6 11.g3 Qxb2 12.Rc1 Rd8 13.Qe2 Qa3 14.Nb1 Qa5+ 15.Nc3 Bd5 16.Nf3 Na4 17.Bd4 Bxf3 18.Qxf3 Rxd4 19.Qxb7 Nxc3 20.Qc6+ Rd7 21.Qa8+ Rd8 22.Qc6+ Rd7 23.Qa8+ Rd8 24.Qc6+ Rd7 1/2-1/2 code

=See also=
 * Legend

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * [|Tell's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik], October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
 * [|Tells Geschoß: Schachmatt], October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
 * [|Computerschach: Mini besiegt Maxi], October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)

Misc
> [|William Tell (play)] > [|Wilhelm Tell] by [|Friedrich Schiller] (ebook) > [|Jean-Paul Bourelly], Darryl Jones, [|Will Calhoun] > media type="custom" key="24650338"
 * [|William Tell from Wikipedia]
 * [|swissinfo - William Tell]
 * Black Stone Raiders, [|Tell BluesClub], June 04, 2011, [|YouTube] Video

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