Original Bernstein Chess Program

mdoege / PyTuroChamp

Python implementations of early chess engines including TUROCHAMP

https://mdoege.github.io/PyTuroChamp/

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Original Bernstein Chess Program #1

Closed pgalbraith closed 3 years ago

pgalbraith commented 3 years ago

Hi thanks for sharing these engines. I'm curious how you were able to implement the Bernstein program, did you have original source or a tape copy to work from?

mdoege commented 3 years ago

It would be great if the original source code or binary would be rediscovered, but I don't think that has happened yet. So I had to use the Bernstein paper ("A chess playing program for the IBM 704") and its example games.

Getting the Plausible Move Table right based on the text description alone is very difficult, so the Python engine is an approximation.

pgalbraith commented 3 years ago

Got it. Thanks again for sharing these efforts!