Eliot+Slater

was an British [|psychiatrist] and [|eugenicist] with interests in chess, music and poetry. At the Conference on Information theory, September 26-29,1950 in London under the topic of //Application of Information Theory to a Study of the Sense Organs and the Central Nervous System//, Slater contributed with a //Statistics for the Chess Computer and the Factor of Mobility.//, which was controversial discussed by D. K. C. MacDonald, F. L. Stumpers, Alan Turing and Jack Good. Slater's paper was the first to attempt the significance of mobility in chess and his data based on 350 master games provides clear evidence of employing mobility as a feature in evaluation.
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 * [[image:Slater.JPG width="196" height="234"]] ||~  || **Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater**, (August 28, 1904 – May 15, 1983)

In 1935 Eliot Slater married [|Lydia Pasternak], sister of [|Boris Pasternak], Russian poet and writer, and published a collection of his poetry, //The Ebbless Sea, Poems// (1922-1962). || toc =Quotes=
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Poems by Doctors
[|The British Journal of Psychiatry] (2008) :

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Alan Turing
Quote by Alan Turing on Slater's paper :

Eliot Slater
Eliot Slater in reply :

=Selected Publications=
 * Eliot Slater (**1950**). //[|Statistics for the Chess Computer and the Factor of Mobility]//. Proceedings of the Symposium on Information Theory, London. Reprinted (**1988**) in Computer Chess Compendium, pp. 113-117. Including the [|transcript of a discussion] with Alan Turing and Jack Good
 * [|Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander], Eliot Slater (**1955**). //[|The Relative Strengths of the Openings]//. [|The British Chess Magazine], LXXV, 6, June 1955
 * Dap Hartmann (**1987**). //How to Extract Relevant Knowledge from Grandmaster Games. Part 2: the Notion of Mobility, and the Work of De Groot and Slater//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2

=External Links=
 * [|Eliot Slater from Wikipedia]
 * [|ETOS - Eliot Slater Archive]
 * [|German Eugenics in Practice, by Eliot Slater, 1936, Eugenics Review (vol. 27:4), ambivalent review of sterilization and marriage laws]
 * [|Insulin Therapy for Schizophrenia] from An Introduction to Physical Methods of Treatment in Psychiatry (First Edition) by [|William Sargant] and Eliot Slater (1944, Edinburgh, E & S Livingstone).

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