Machiavelli

a chess program developed in 1947-1948 by Donald Michie and Shaun Wylie which was a rival "paper machine" of Alan Turing's and David Champernowne's Turochamp. Turing began programming both at University of Manchester but never completed them and they never played each other.
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In their 1961 article //Machines that play games//, John Maynard Smith and Donald Michie elaborate the evaluation features of their one-ply analyzers SOMA and Machiavelli, to consider material, center and neighboring king square control, pieces en-prise, swap-off values and other tactical and strategical considerations. Later, John Maynard Smith built a SOMA-Machiavelli hybrid named SOMAC (SOMA with features taken from the Machiavelli). This machine, when allowed a lookahead of two, has a standard of play equal to that of a mediocre human player ... || toc =SOMA - Machiavelli= Following game between SOMA and Machiavelli was played, with the conclusion that it seems unlikely that a one-ply analyzer would beat any but the most inexperienced human player. code [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "1961.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "SOMA"] [Black "Machiavelli"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]
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1.e3 e5 2.d4 Nc6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 e4 5.Ne5 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd2 Nf6 8.a3 Bd6 9.h4 Bg4 10.Be2 Qd7 11.O-O O-O-O 12.f3 Bf5 13.fxe4 Bxe4 14.Ba6+ Kb8 15.Nxe4 Nxe4 16.Qe2 Qe6 17.Ba5 Ng3 18.Qf3 Nxf1 19.Rxf1 f6 20.Rd1 Qe4 21.Qxe4 dxe4 22.d5 cxd5 23.Rxd5 Be5 24.Rb5+ Ka8 25.Bb7+ Kb8 26.Bxe4+ Kc8 27.Bf5+ Rd7 28.Bxd7+ Kxd7 1/2-1/2 {agreed} code

=Publications=
 * John Maynard Smith, Donald Michie (**1961**). //Machines that play games//. [|New Scientist], 12, 367-9. [|google books]
 * Donald Michie (**1966**). //Game Playing and Game Learning Automata.// Advances in Programming and Non-Numerical Computation, [|Leslie Fox] (ed.), pp 183-200. Oxford, Pergamon. » Includes Appendix: //Rules of SOMAC// by John Maynard Smith
 * Donald Michie (**1974**). //On Machine Intelligence//. Edinburgh: University Press, ISBN 10: 085224262X, ISBN 13: 9780852242629, [|abebooks.com], [|alibris.com], [|biblio.com]
 * [|Andrew S. Gordon] (**2001**). //Playing Chess with Machiavelli: Improving Interactive Entertainment with Explicit Strategies//. AAAI Technical Report, [|pdf]

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 * Machiavelli, The Prince 1/5, [|YouTube] Video

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