Comments on: Mechanical Chess Opponent http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/22/mechanical-chess-opponent/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:07:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/22/mechanical-chess-opponent/#comment-1030920 jayessell Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:20:28 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/22/mechanical-chess-opponent/#comment-1030920 When the wizards aren't using Hex for spell checking, they use it to play chess. (I saw the "Hogfather" movie. Hex has nice penmanship.) When the wizards aren’t using Hex for spell checking, they use it to play chess.
(I saw the “Hogfather” movie.
Hex has nice penmanship.)

]]> By: John Savard http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/22/mechanical-chess-opponent/#comment-1029645 John Savard Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:02:57 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/22/mechanical-chess-opponent/#comment-1029645 When I saw the article, I thought of the machine invented by Torres y Quevedo. It "never made a mistake" because it didn't really play a full game of Chess, only a Rook and Pawn endgame. And so the previous comment is correct. When I saw the article, I thought of the machine invented by Torres y Quevedo. It “never made a mistake” because it didn’t really play a full game of Chess, only a Rook and Pawn endgame.

And so the previous comment is correct.

]]> By: mward http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/22/mechanical-chess-opponent/#comment-38429 mward Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:15:53 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/22/mechanical-chess-opponent/#comment-38429 I remember reading about a "mechanical chess computer" that could solve simple endgame problems: it computed the next move for King verses King plus Rook using a simple algorithm which ensured a checkmate. Here's a Wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista The board looks fine to me. I remember reading about a “mechanical chess computer” that could solve simple endgame problems: it computed the next move for King verses King plus Rook using a simple algorithm which ensured a checkmate.

Here’s a Wikipedia article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista

The board looks fine to me.

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