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Norman D. Whaland, Jr.,
an American scientific journalist, translator of Russian scientific publications and books ^{[1] [2]}, and contributor of early microcomputer game and chess programming topics. He published A Computer Chess Tutorial in Byte Magazine 1978, reprinted in David Levy's Computer Chess Compendium ^[3]. In a letter to the editor of the VIPer newsletter about the CHIP-8 interpreted programming language for the RCA 1802 8-bit CMOS microprocessor, he mentioned using machine code and a Pascal-like language of his own invention ^[4].

Selected Publications

• Norman Whaland (1978). A Computer Chess Tutorial. BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 10, Reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
• Norman Whaland (1980). What Chess Programs Don't Do (Part I). Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 82
• Norman Whaland (1980). What Chess Programs Don't Do (Part II). Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 77
• Norman Whaland (1981). TRS-80 - Konane. SoftSide Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 03 / Issue 24, December, 1981 ^[5]

References

1. ^ Vladimir Andreevich Uspensky: books
2. ^ Nikolai Nikolaevich Vorob'ev (1963). The Fibonacci numbers, translated and adapted from the first Russian edition (1951) by Norman D. Whaland and Olga A. Titelbaum
3. ^ Norman Whaland (1978). A Computer Chess Tutorial. BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 10, Reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
4. ^ VIPer, Vol. 1, Issue 3, September 1978, pdf
5. ^ Konane from Wikipedia

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