Gary Boos
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Gary J. Boos,
an American senior transmission engineer, chess class A and Go player, and computer chess and Go programmer.
He received a BSCE degree in 1966 and a MSCE degree in structural engineering in 1968 from the University of Minnesota [1].
Along with James Mundstock, Gary Boos co-authored the chess programs Mr. Turk and Iron Fish.
Mr. Turk did not use alpha-beta,
but a search based on a Multipurpose, Theorem-Proving Heuristic Program as described by James R. Slagle and Philip Bursky in 1968 [2], and competed at ACM 1971
[3].
Iron Fish played the ACM 1975. Gary Boos' Go-programm Teamgo paticipiated five times at North American Computer Go Championships [4] from 1995 to 1999.
Publications
- Gary J. Boos (1971). Mr. Turk in Ben Mittman, Computer Chess Programs (Panel). hosted by The Computer History Museum
External Links
- Gary Boos | LinkedIn
- Boos, Gary from computer-go.info
- The chess games of Gary J Boos from chessgames.com
References
- ↑ Gary Boos | LinkedIn
- ↑ James R. Slagle, Philip Bursky (1968). Experiments With a Multipurpose, Theorem-Proving Heuristic Program. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 1
- ↑ Ben Mittman (1971). Computer Chess Programs (Panel). hosted by The Computer History Museum
- ↑ The North American Computer Go Championships
