The+Bernstein+Chess+Program

was the first complete chess program, developed in 1957 at [|Service Bureau Corporation], [|Madison] & [|59th Street], [|Manhattan], [|New York City], by chess player and programmer at IBM, Alex Bernstein with his colleagues Michael de V. Roberts, Timothy Arbuckle and Martin Belsky, supported by chess advisor [|Arthur Bisguier] , who became IBM employee at that time and in 1957 [|international chess grandmaster], and supervised by Nathaniel Rochester.
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 * [[image:2-1.Bernstein-alex.1958.L02645391.IBM_ARCHIVES.lg.jpg link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431614f6482e6"]] ||~  || **The Bernstein Chess Program**,

The Bernstein Chess Program was the prototype of a selective forward pruning, Shannon Type B program. On an IBM 704, one of the last vacuum tube computers, it searched four plies minimax in around 8 minutes, considering seven most plausible moves from each position and evaluated material, mobility, area control and king defense. || toc =Publications=
 * Alex Bernstein, IBM 704 console ||~  ||^   ||
 * Alex Bernstein, Michael de V. Roberts (**1958**). //[|Computer vs. Chess-Player]//. Scientific American, Vol. 198, pp. 96-105. [|pdf] from The Computer History Museum, reprinted 1988 in Computer Chess Compendium
 * Alex Bernstein (**1958**). //[|A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 704]//. [|Chess Review] July 1958, [|pdf] from The Computer History Museum
 * Alex Bernstein, Michael de V. Roberts, Timothy Arbuckle, Martin Belsky (**1958**). //[|A chess playing program for the IBM 704]//. Proceedings of the 1958 Western Joint Computer Conference, pp. 157-159, Los Angeles, California. [|pdf] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|Fritz Leiber] (**1962**). //[|The 64-Square Madhouse]//. [|Worlds of If]

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 * [|The Bernstein Chess Program] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear] by Carey, hosted by the [|Internet Archive]
 * [|Photos] by [|Andreas Feininger], [|Getty Images]
 * [|Chess Pieces - IBM Research] the Deep Blue site
 * [|Runner-Up - The New Yorker - November 29, 1958]
 * Alex Bernstein: //juega al ajedrez con un// IBM 704 (Thinking Machines), [|YouTube] Video

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