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Quote by [[Maarten van Emden]] in ''I remember [[Donald Michie]]'' <ref>[http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/i-remember-donald-michie-1923-2007/ I remember Donald Michie (1923 – 2007) « A Programmers Place] by [[Maarten van Emden]], June 12, 2009</ref>:
In 1980 I spent another summer in Edinburgh as a guest of [[Donald Michie]]. Since the low point of 1975, thanks to assiduous and inventive joint pursuit of funding possibilities by Donald and [[Jean Hayes Michie|Jean]], the Machine Intelligence Research Unit was alive with work focused on [[Endgame|chess endgames]]. There were students, including [[Tim Niblett]] and [[Alen Shapiro]]. [[Danny Kopec]] was there, perhaps formally as a student, but de facto as the resident chess consultant. [[Ivan Bratko]] visited frequently. Alen was the administrator of the dream computing environment of that time: a small [[PDP-11]] running [[Unix]].
==AI as Sport==
Quote by [[John McCarthy]] from ''AI as Sport'' <ref>[[John McCarthy]] ('''1997'''). ''AI as Sport''. Science, Vol. 276, June 6, pp. 1518-1519.</ref><ref>[http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/newborn/newborn.html AI as Sport] by [[John McCarthy]]</ref>:
Besides AI work aimed at tournament play, particular aspects of the game have illuminated the intellectual mechanisms involved. [[Barbara Liskov]] demonstrated that what chess books teach about how to win certain [[Endgame|endgames]] is not a program but more like a predicate comparing two positions to see if one is an improvement on the other. Such qualitative comparisons are an important feature of human intelligence and are needed for AI. [[Donald Michie]], [[Ivan Bratko]], [[Alen Shapiro]], [[David Wilkins]], and others have also used chess as a Drosophila to study intelligence. [[Monroe Newborn|Newborn]] ignores this work, because it is not oriented to tournament play.
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