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|| [[image:220px-Wilhelm_Tell_Denkmal_Altdorf_um_1900_Detail.jpg link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell"]] ||~ || **Tell**,
an early chess program by [[Johann Joss]], who already started chess programming in 1967 on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_1604|CDC I604 A]] <ref>[[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/computer-logik-im-koeniglichen-spiel,1205123|Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik]], October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)</ref>. It played the first two [[World Computer Chess Championship|World Computer Chess Championships]], the [[WCCC 1974]] in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm|Stockholm]] and the [[WCCC 1977]] in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto|Toronto]], and won the first German computer chess tournament, the [[First GI Computer Chess Tournament]], 1975 in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund|Dortmund]] <ref>[[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/tells-geschoss-schachmatt,1205122|Tells Geschoß: Schachmatt]], October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)</ref> <ref>[[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/computerschach-mini-besiegt-maxi,1205115|Computerschach: Mini besiegt Maxi]], October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)</ref>. Tell was a small and fast searcher for that time, running  on [[HP 2100|HP 2100, HP 2115]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer|minicomputers]], three to eight [[Ply|plies]] deep with around 100.000 nodes in three minutes <ref>[[Karsten Bauermeister]] (**1995**). //Aufbruchstimmung in Deutschland.// [[Computerschach und Spiele]] Heft 6, 1995 (German)</ref>. ||
|| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Monument|Tell Monument]] <ref>Detail from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Monument|Statue of William Tell]] and his son in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altdorf,_Uri|Altdorf]] ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kissling|Richard Kissling]], 1895), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell|William Tell from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~  ||^ ||
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=[[#Freedom]]WCCC '74 game=
This sample game from the [[WCCC 1974]], [[Freedom]] versus Tell ended in a draw by [[Repetitions|threefold repetition]], where Tell in an otherwise won position was likely not aware of:
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[Event "WCCC 1974"]
[Site "Stockholm, Sweden"]
[Date "1974.08.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Freedom"]
[Black "Tell"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

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 
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=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Legend|Legend]]

=External Links=
==Chess Program==
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=49|Tell's ICGA Tournaments]]
* [[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/computer-logik-im-koeniglichen-spiel,1205123|Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik]], October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)
* [[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/tells-geschoss-schachmatt,1205122|Tells Geschoß: Schachmatt]], October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)
* [[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/computerschach-mini-besiegt-maxi,1205115|Computerschach: Mini besiegt Maxi]], October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell|William Tell from Wikipedia]]
> [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell_%28play%29|William Tell (play)]]
> [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2782|Wilhelm Tell]] by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller|Friedrich Schiller]] (ebook)
* [[http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/tell/index.html?cid=47534|swissinfo - William Tell]]
* [[Videos#BlackStoneRaiders|Black Stone Raiders]], [[http://www.ostermundigen.ch/leben-und-wohnen/tell-kultur-zentrum/|Tell BluesClub]] <ref>[[http://www.bernerzeitung.newsnet.ch/region/bern/Im-Tell-Ostermundigen-gibt-es-keine-Rockkonzerte-mehr/story/22521926|Ostermundigen: Im Tell Ostermundigen gibt es keine Rockkonzerte mehr - News Region: Bern & Region]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berner_Zeitung|Berner Zeitung]], January 31, 2012</ref>, June 04, 2011, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
> [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Bourelly|Jean-Paul Bourelly]], [[Videos#DarrylJones|Darryl Jones]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Calhoun|Will Calhoun]]
> [[media type="custom" key="24650338"]]

=References= 
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=What links here?= 
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