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David J. Slate, an American computer scientist and former computer chess programmer. He started chess programming in 1968 as physics graduate student at Northwestern University, and by mid 1969 joined the group of Larry Atkin and Keith Gorlen, to produce their first successful program, Chess 2.0. After Gorlen left the Northwestern in 1970, the development continued under Atkin and Slate. Later supported by CDC Cyber consultant David Cahlander, Chess almost dominated computer chess during the 70s in the United States.

From the late 70s, Slate collaborated with William Blanchard to build their new chess program Nuchess. In the early 80s, David Slate was further involved in the development of programs for dedicated chess computers. Affiliated with Applied Concepts, and along with Atkin, Slate co-authored the Gruenfeld and Capablanca module programs for the Great Game Machine and the Chafitz modular game system. David Slate further worked with Peter W. Frey on Pattern and Letter Recognition.

=Photos= Slate and Atkin at ACM 1975 Chess pioneers in Sacher Hotel Vienna, Austria 1980: Ben Mittman, Monty Newborn, Tony Marsland, Dave Slate, David Levy, Claude Shannon, Ken Thompson, Betty Shannon, Tom Truscott

=Selected Publications=
 * David Slate, Larry Atkin, Keith Gorlen (1971). CHESS 3.5 User Guide. Northwestern University
 * David Slate, Larry Atkin (1977). CHESS 4.5 - The Northwestern University Chess Program. Chess Skill in Man and Machine, reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
 * Hans Berliner, Richard Greenblatt, Jacques Pitrat, Arthur Samuel, David Slate (1977). Panel on Computer Game Playing. IJCAI 1977, pdf
 * David Slate, Ben Mittman (1978). Chess 4.6 - Where Do We Go From Here? Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology 1978 193-198
 * David Slate (1979). Tenth Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship. ICCA Newletter, Vol. 2, No. 2 » ACM 1979
 * David Slate (1984). Interior-node Score Bounds in a Brute-force Chess Program. ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4
 * David Slate (1987). A Chess Program that uses its Transposition Table to Learn from Experience. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2
 * Peter W. Frey, David Slate (1991). Letter Recognition Using Holland-style Adaptive Classifiers. Machine Learning Vol 6 #2 March 91, pdf
 * David Slate, Peter W. Frey (2009). Recursive Binary Partitioning, Old Dogs with New Tricks. KDD Conference 2009, slides as pdf

=External Links=
 * David Slate's ICGA Tournaments
 * David Slate from The Computer History Museum

=References=

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