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'''Charles F. Wilkes''',<br/>
an American chess programmer and [[IBM]] employee, along with his son [[Charlie Wilkes]] author of the chess program [[The Fox]].
Inspired by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin George R. R. Martin] essay ''[[CCCP (US)#TheComputerWasAFish|The Computer Was A Fish]]'' in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact Analog Science Fiction and Fact], August 1972 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin George R. R. Martin] ('''1972'''). ''[[CCCP (US)#TheComputerWasAFish|The Computer Was A Fish]]''. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57064 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1972]</ref>, concerning the early [[ACM 1971|ACM Tournaments]],
they soon started to write an own chess program in [[APL]], without knowledge of how others had to that point programmed.
They invented their own equivalent to [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] pruning. The Fox played the 4th [[ACM 1973]] on an [[IBM 370|IBM 370-145]] with a win against [[Tech|Tech 2]] in the first round,
but suffered from too many users on their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing timesharing system] on Monday,
where they lost both games due to time forfeit
<ref>[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6d6b8e/ Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2] 1977 by [[Douglas Penrod]], letter by [[Charles F. Wilkes]] pp. 6-9, Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]], hosted by the [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.
=External Links=
* [https://www.mobygames.com/developer/charles-f-wilkes/credits/developerId,1011130/ Charles F. Wilkes Video Game Credits - MobyGames]
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'''Charles F. Wilkes''',<br/>
an American chess programmer and [[IBM]] employee, along with his son [[Charlie Wilkes]] author of the chess program [[The Fox]].
Inspired by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin George R. R. Martin] essay ''[[CCCP (US)#TheComputerWasAFish|The Computer Was A Fish]]'' in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact Analog Science Fiction and Fact], August 1972 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin George R. R. Martin] ('''1972'''). ''[[CCCP (US)#TheComputerWasAFish|The Computer Was A Fish]]''. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57064 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1972]</ref>, concerning the early [[ACM 1971|ACM Tournaments]],
they soon started to write an own chess program in [[APL]], without knowledge of how others had to that point programmed.
They invented their own equivalent to [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] pruning. The Fox played the 4th [[ACM 1973]] on an [[IBM 370|IBM 370-145]] with a win against [[Tech|Tech 2]] in the first round,
but suffered from too many users on their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing timesharing system] on Monday,
where they lost both games due to time forfeit
<ref>[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6d6b8e/ Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2] 1977 by [[Douglas Penrod]], letter by [[Charles F. Wilkes]] pp. 6-9, Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]], hosted by the [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.
=External Links=
* [https://www.mobygames.com/developer/charles-f-wilkes/credits/developerId,1011130/ Charles F. Wilkes Video Game Credits - MobyGames]
=References=
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