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Alex Bernstein, an American mathematician, chess player and IBM employee. Along with his colleagues Michael de V. Roberts, Timothy Arbuckle and Martin Belsky, Alex Bernstein was primary author of the Bernstein Chess Program for the IBM 704. Pamela McCorduck, who was married to Joseph F. Traub, interviewed Alex Bernstein as published with several details given in her seminal book Machines Who Think.

=Quotes=

John McCarthy in The Dartmouth Workshop--as planned and as it happened Alex Bernstein of IBM presented his chess program under construction. My reaction was to invent and recommend to him alpha-beta pruning. He was unconvinced.

=See also=
 * History of Computer Chess
 * The Bernstein Chess Program

=Publications=
 * Alex Bernstein, Michael de V. Roberts (1958). Computer vs. Chess-Player. Scientific American, Vol. 198, reprinted 1988 in Computer Chess Compendium
 * Alex Bernstein (1958). A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 704. Chess Review, July 1958
 * Alex Bernstein, Michael de V. Roberts, Timothy Arbuckle, Martin Belsky (1958). A chess playing program for the IBM 704. Proceedings of the 1958 Western Joint Computer Conference
 * Pamela McCorduck (1979). Machines Who Think. W. H. Freeman
 * Pamela McCorduck (2004). Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence. A. K. Peters (25th anniversary edition)

=Forum Posts=
 * The mystery of Alex Bernstein by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, June 06, 2019
 * Re: The mystery of Alex Bernstein by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, June 09, 2019

=External Links=
 * Alex Bernstein from The Computer History Museum
 * Photos by Andreas Feininger, Getty Images
 * Chess Pieces - IBM Research the Deep Blue site
 * Runner-Up - The New Yorker - November 29, 1958
 * Alex Bernstein: juega al ajedrez con un IBM 704 (Thinking Machines) YouTube Video

=References=

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