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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[:Category://enGeorge R.wikipediaR.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin 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[:Category://enGeorge R.wikipediaR.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin 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,
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