“There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.” IfsPlayerWonderfulMankindPureMachinesPreparedChessInventionFormerOperationsComparisonBe PreparedAnalogiesCalculatingChess Players Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.” MenHumansLongPoliticalLyingValuesProcessDecisionResultsJudgmentComputerCapacityProgramMachinesPerformancesPressureStrategyIncrediblesSpeedContraryChessCommitRangeSweatAestheticRecallsSuperficialBlundersStaplesTacticalWithstanding Author:Ira Carmen
“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.” PeopleThinkingMenMayWould BeSpeakTeachFieldsActivitySpeechIntellectualMachinesChessAbstractOrgansSpeak English Author:Alan Turing
“Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.” ShouldMovingScienceGamesLostResultsNumbersPlayerConsequenceMachinesOrganizationChessExperimentsNervousAccumulationRegisterPlaying GamesChess Players Author:William Stanley Jevons
“The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.” KnownCircumstancesMachinesChessTitlesSufficientFlexibilityAlteredAdmiringDrawbacks Author:Max Euwe