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[[FILE:monty_head.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/| Monty Newborn <ref>[http://cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/ Monty Newborn] Professor School of Computer Science, [[McGill University]]</ref> ]]
'''Monroe M. (Monty) Newborn''',<br/>
a Canadian computer scientist, and emeritus professor at [[McGill University]] <ref>[http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/people/faculty/profile?uid=newborn Monty Newborn - McGill School of Computer Science]</ref> in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal Montreal], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec Quebec], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada Canada]. Monty was early computer chess programmer and primary author of the chess program [[Ostrich]], and the [[Pawn Endgame|pawn endgame]] program [[Peasant]] <ref>[[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''PEASANT: An endgame program for kings and pawns''. [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]] (Ed. [[Peter W. Frey]]), pp. 119-130</ref>.
In 1970 Monty Newborn and [[Ben Mittman]] initiated, constituted and organized the [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]], and together with [[Ben Mittman]] and [[David Levy]] the [[World Computer Chess Championship]] in 1974. Newborn was co-founder of the [[ICCA]] in 1977, and served as its president from 1983 until 1986. He has written extensively on computer chess <ref>[http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Monroe_Newborn.html Books by Monroe Newborn] from [http://www.allbookstores.com/ Bookstores.com]</ref>.
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Tournament organizers [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] and [[Ben Mittman]] (front) with ACM president<br/>Sam Matsa and [[David Slate]]. [[Larry Atkin]] looks on. [[ACM 1970]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbda5f95 Newborn, Matsa, Slate, Atkin, and Mittman at the 1st North American Computer Chess Championship, New York City, New York], Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> .
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Chess pioneers in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Sacher Sacher Hotel Vienna], Austria 1980: [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Tony Marsland]], <br/>[[David Slate|Dave Slate]], [[David Levy]], [[Claude Shannon]], [[Ken Thompson]], Betty Shannon, [[Tom Truscott]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753 Chess pioneers in Sacher Hotel Vienna, Austria], Gift of [[Ben Mittman|Benjamin Mittman]], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
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[[Alexander Reznitskiy|A. Reznitskiy]], [[Boris Stilman|B. Stilman]], [[Mikhail Donskoy|M. Donskoy]], [[Mikhail Botvinnik|M. Botvinnik]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty & Amy Newborn]] <ref>[[Tony Marsland]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1981'''). ''A brighter future for Soviet computer chess?'' [[ICGA Journal#4_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1]], [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/OldPapers/Marsland-Newborn-1981.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd70434 Monroe Newborn and Soviet computer chess developers in Moscow], Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]], 1980</ref> <ref>[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5153 Computer chess pioneer Mikhail Donskoy passes on] from [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], January 16, 2009</ref> <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/e9f5b809a7ac0952 Kaissa & Botvinik] by [[Shay Bushinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 16, 1997</ref>
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[[Don Beal]], [[Ken Thompson]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], and [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] at the [[WCCC 1983]] in New York City <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe3f6f0 Photo] Gift of Monroe Newborn from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
=Biography=
Brief Biography of Monty Newborn <ref>[http://cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/ Monty Newborn], Professor School of Computer Science, [[McGill University]]</ref>:
Monty Newborn received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_University Ohio State University] in 1967. He was an assistant professor and then associate professor at [[Columbia University]] in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1967-1975. In 1975, he joined the School of Computer Science at [[McGill University]] and has been with the School since then, serving as its director from 1976-1983. He has been an [[ACM]] Fellow since 1994.
His research focuses on search problems in artificial intelligence where two areas are of particular interest: chess-playing programs and automated theorem-proving programs. He has published seven books on these subjects and a number of research papers as well. He served as chairman of the ACM Computer Chess Committee from 1981 until 1997. In that capacity he organized the first Kasparov versus Deep Blue match (known as the ACM Chess Challenge) in 1996. The following year he served as head of the officials at the [[Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1997|second Kasparov versus Deep Blue match]] won by Deep Blue. Through the 1970s and 1980s, his chess program Ostrich competed in five world championships, coming close to winning in 1974.
=Quotes=
Quote from ''Canadian Chess'' <ref>[http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessBiographiesN.html#NEWBORN Canadian Chess - Monroe (Monty) Newborn]</ref>
* Computer Science Professor, McGill University
* Programmer (originally with [[George Arnold]]) of [[Ostrich]] (also Ostrich 80, Ostrich 81), a computer chess program which competed in the ACM U.S. Computer Championships (1972-74), ACM North American Computer Championships (1975, 1977-87) and World Computer Championships (1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986)
* 2nd place ACM U.S. Computer Championship 1973 for Ostrich
* Organized first ACM U.S. Computer Championship 1970, as well as many succeeding championships
* President, [[ICCA|International Computer Chess Association]] 1983-86
* Applied results obtained from research on search algorithms in the field of computer chess to the field of internet searching
* Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001
=See also=
* [[History#AIPerspective|The History of Computer Chess - an AI Perspective - Video]]
=Selected Publications=
==1973 ...==
* [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1973'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1045181 Results of the fourth annual U.S. computer chess tournament]''. [[ACM#SIG|ACM SIGART Bulletin]], No. 42 » [[ACM 1973]]
==1975 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1975'''). ''Computer Chess''. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-125-17250-8.
: Chapter I. Introduction
: Chapter II. The History and Basic Ideas of Computer Chess
: Chapter III. [[Stanford-ITEP Match|The Kotok-McCarthy Chess Program versus the ITEP Chess Program]]
: Chapter IV. [[Mac Hack|The Greenblatt Chess Program]]
: Chapter V. [[ACM 1970|The First United States Computer Chess Championship]]
: Chapter VI. [[ACM 1971|The Second United States Computer Chess Championship]]
: Chapter VII. [[ACM 1972|The Third United States Computer Chess Championship]]
: Chapter VIII. [[Kaissa]]
: Chapter IX. [[ACM 1973|The Fourth United States Computer Chess Championship]]
: Chapter X. [[Ostrich]]: A Description of a Chess-Playing Program
: Appendix I. [[WCCC 1974|The First World Computer Chess Championship]]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=21 David vs. 12 Goliaths]''. [[Creative Computing#Best2|The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2]], edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Ahl David Ahl], hosted by [http://www.atariarchives.org/ AtariArchives.org] » [[ACM 1975]]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=22 Summary of the ACM Sixth U.S. Computer Chess Championship]''. [[Creative Computing#Best2|The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2]], edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Ahl David Ahl], hosted by [http://www.atariarchives.org/ AtariArchives.org] » [[ACM 1975]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''PEASANT: An endgame program for kings and pawns''. [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]] (Ed. [[Peter W. Frey]]), pp. 119-130
* [[Selim Akl]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''The Principal Continuation and the Killer Heuristic''. 1977 ACM Annual Conference Proceedings, pp. 466-473. ACM, Seattle, WA.
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1978'''). ''Computer Chess: Recent Progress and Further Expectations''. International Conference on Parallel Processing (ed. J. Moneta). North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-85192-5.
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1979'''). ''Recent Progress in Computer Chess''. Advances in Computers, Vol. 18, pp. 59-117. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. Reprinted (1988) in [http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4613-8716-9 Computer Games I] (ed. [[David Levy]]), pp. 226-324, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1979'''). ''Ostrich IV meets the Black Knight''. [[Personal Computing#3_10|Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 10]], pp. 74 » [[ACM 1978]], [[Ostrich]], [[Black Knight]]
==1980 ...==
* [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1980'''). ''Computer chess at ACM 79: the tournament and the man vs. man and machine match''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 23, Issue 1, [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Computer_chess_at_ACM_79/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Computer_chess_at_ACM_79.062303018.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[David Levy]], [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1980'''). ''3rd World Computer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#3_3|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3]] » [[WCCC 1980]]
* [[Tony Marsland]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1981'''). ''A brighter future for Soviet computer chess?'' [[ICGA Journal#4_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1]], [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/OldPapers/Marsland-Newborn-1981.pdf pdf]
* [[Ben Mittman]], [[Tony Marsland]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Kathe Spracklen]], [[Ken Thompson]] ('''1981'''). ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=809845&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=85837222&CFTOKEN=72556238 Computer chess: Master level play in 1981?]'' ACM 81: Proceedings of the ACM '81 conference
* [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1981'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2 More Chess and Computers, The Microcomputer Revolution, The Challenge Match]''. Computer Science Press, Inc., Potomac, Maryland. ISBN 0-914894-07-2
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1982'''). ''OSTRICH/P - a parallel search chess program, SOCS-82.3,'' McGill University, School of Computer Science, Montreal.
* [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1982, 1983'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2 All About Chess and Computers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Chess-Computers-Levy/dp/3540119329 amazon, 2nd edition]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1984'''). ''The Fourth World Microcomputer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#7_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4]] » [[WMCCC 1984]]
==1985 ...==
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1985'''). ''ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 28, No. 7, reprinted in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cef27 The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Denver Colorado, October 13-15, 1985], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1985_16th_NACCC/1985%20NACCC.062303067.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1985'''). ''A Hypothesis Concerning the Strength of Chess Programs''. [[ICGA Journal#8_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1985'''). ''A Parallel Search Chess Program''. Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference, pp. 272-277. Denver, Co.
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Winston Yu]] ('''1986'''). ''Experiments in Chess Cognition''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 4]]
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1986'''). ''Belle and Mephisto Dallas Capture Computer Chess Title at the FJCC''. reprinted in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cabbd The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1987_18th_NACCC/1987%20NACCC.062303063.sm.pdf pdf]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1988'''). ''Results of [[ACM 1987|ACM's Eighteenth Computer Chess Championship]]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 31, No. 8, [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~kopec/Publications/Publications/O_30_C.pdf pdf]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1988'''). ''Unsynchronized Iterative Deepening Parallel Alpha-Beta Search''. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 687-694. ISSN 0162-8828.
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1989'''). ''A Theorem Proving Program that Looks Like a Chess Program''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1989'''). ''Results of The Nineteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 32, No. 10, [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~kopec/Publications/Publications/O_23_C.pdf pdf], reprinted in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cb3a1 The Twentieth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1989_20th_NACCC/1989%20NACCC.062303064.sm.pdf pdf] » [[ACM 1988]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1990'''). ''[[ACM 1989|The Twentieth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]]'', in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cbb95 The 21st Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1990_21st_NACCC/1990%20NACCC.062303065.sm.pdf pdf]
* [[Monroe Newborn]], [[David Levy]] ('''1991'''). ''How Computers Play Chess''. W.H. Freeman & Co
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Michael Valvo]] ('''1992'''). ''[[ACM 1991|The 22d Annual ACM International Chess Championship]]'', in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cc6e9 The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1990_21st_NACCC/1990%20NACCC.062303065.sm.pdf pdf]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1991'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=125497 The 21st ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 34, No. 11, [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-11640254/21st-acm-north-american.html online] » [[ACM 1990]]
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Michael Valvo]] ('''1994'''). ''The 23rd ACM NACCC in Indianapolis''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cceea The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1994_24th_ICCC/1994%20ICCC.062303013.sm.pdf pdf] » [[ACM 1993]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1994'''). ''The 24th ACM International Computer-Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#17_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3]] » [[ACM 1994]]
==1995 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1995'''). ''A Eulogy for Mikhail Moiseivich Botvinnik''. [[ICGA Journal#18_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2]] » [[Mikhail Botvinnik]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1997'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-2260-6 Kasparov versus Deep Blue: Computer Chess Comes of Age].'' [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Robert Hyatt]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1997'''). ''CRAFTY Goes Deep''. [[ICGA Journal#20_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2]] » [[Crafty]]
==2000 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''2000'''). ''Automated Theorem Proving: Theory and Practice''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [http://www.amazon.com/Automated-Theorem-Proving-Theory-Practice/dp/0387950753/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2 amazon]
==2005 ...==
* [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''2009'''). ''How Computers Play Chess''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi_Press Ishi Press], [http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Play-Chess-David-Levy/dp/4871878015/ref=sr_1_1 amazon]
==2010 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-0-85729-340-4 Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Deep-Blue-Chess-Stratosphere/dp/0857293400 amazon] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41053 New CC book: Beyond Deep Blue] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[CCC]], November 11, 2011</ref>
: [[FILE:bejDeepBlue.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-0-85729-340-4]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Robert Hyatt]] ('''2014'''). ''Computer Chess Endgame Play with Pawns: Then and Now''. [[ICGA Journal#37_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4]] » [[Peasant]], [[Crafty]]
=External Links=
* [http://cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/ Monty Newborn], Professor School of Computer Science, [[McGill University]]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=394 Monroe Newborn's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Newborn Monty Newborn from Wikipedia]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=73408 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Monty Newborn]
* [http://chess.ca/newborn-monroe Newborn Monroe | The Chess Federation of Canada - La Fédération Canadienne des Échecs]
* [http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/%7Enewborn/TheoOctopusAtCasc06.pdf Theo and Octopus at CASC-J3] (pdf) by Monty Newborn
* [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/oral-history/newborn.oral_history.2005.102630783/newborn.oral_history_transcript.2005.102630783.pdf Oral History of Monty Newborn] (pdf) © 2005 [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/search.php?more=item_still_image&submitted=1&keywords=Newborn&all=all&item_document=item_document&item_moving_image=item_moving_image&item_artifact=item_artifact&item_still_image=item_still_image&item_oral_history=item_oral_history&item_software=item_software Images by Monty Newborn] from the [[The Computer History Museum]]
=References=
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'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[FILE:monty_head.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/| Monty Newborn <ref>[http://cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/ Monty Newborn] Professor School of Computer Science, [[McGill University]]</ref> ]]
'''Monroe M. (Monty) Newborn''',<br/>
a Canadian computer scientist, and emeritus professor at [[McGill University]] <ref>[http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/people/faculty/profile?uid=newborn Monty Newborn - McGill School of Computer Science]</ref> in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal Montreal], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec Quebec], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada Canada]. Monty was early computer chess programmer and primary author of the chess program [[Ostrich]], and the [[Pawn Endgame|pawn endgame]] program [[Peasant]] <ref>[[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''PEASANT: An endgame program for kings and pawns''. [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]] (Ed. [[Peter W. Frey]]), pp. 119-130</ref>.
In 1970 Monty Newborn and [[Ben Mittman]] initiated, constituted and organized the [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]], and together with [[Ben Mittman]] and [[David Levy]] the [[World Computer Chess Championship]] in 1974. Newborn was co-founder of the [[ICCA]] in 1977, and served as its president from 1983 until 1986. He has written extensively on computer chess <ref>[http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Monroe_Newborn.html Books by Monroe Newborn] from [http://www.allbookstores.com/ Bookstores.com]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:Newborn_Matsa_Slate_Atkin_Mittman.ACM_1970-2.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbda5f95]]
Tournament organizers [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] and [[Ben Mittman]] (front) with ACM president<br/>Sam Matsa and [[David Slate]]. [[Larry Atkin]] looks on. [[ACM 1970]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbda5f95 Newborn, Matsa, Slate, Atkin, and Mittman at the 1st North American Computer Chess Championship, New York City, New York], Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> .
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Chess pioneers in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Sacher Sacher Hotel Vienna], Austria 1980: [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Tony Marsland]], <br/>[[David Slate|Dave Slate]], [[David Levy]], [[Claude Shannon]], [[Ken Thompson]], Betty Shannon, [[Tom Truscott]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753 Chess pioneers in Sacher Hotel Vienna, Austria], Gift of [[Ben Mittman|Benjamin Mittman]], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
[[FILE:ReznitkiyStilmanDonskoyBotvinnikNewborn.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5153]]
[[Alexander Reznitskiy|A. Reznitskiy]], [[Boris Stilman|B. Stilman]], [[Mikhail Donskoy|M. Donskoy]], [[Mikhail Botvinnik|M. Botvinnik]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty & Amy Newborn]] <ref>[[Tony Marsland]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1981'''). ''A brighter future for Soviet computer chess?'' [[ICGA Journal#4_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1]], [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/OldPapers/Marsland-Newborn-1981.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd70434 Monroe Newborn and Soviet computer chess developers in Moscow], Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]], 1980</ref> <ref>[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5153 Computer chess pioneer Mikhail Donskoy passes on] from [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], January 16, 2009</ref> <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/e9f5b809a7ac0952 Kaissa & Botvinik] by [[Shay Bushinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 16, 1997</ref>
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[[Don Beal]], [[Ken Thompson]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], and [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] at the [[WCCC 1983]] in New York City <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe3f6f0 Photo] Gift of Monroe Newborn from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
=Biography=
Brief Biography of Monty Newborn <ref>[http://cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/ Monty Newborn], Professor School of Computer Science, [[McGill University]]</ref>:
Monty Newborn received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_University Ohio State University] in 1967. He was an assistant professor and then associate professor at [[Columbia University]] in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1967-1975. In 1975, he joined the School of Computer Science at [[McGill University]] and has been with the School since then, serving as its director from 1976-1983. He has been an [[ACM]] Fellow since 1994.
His research focuses on search problems in artificial intelligence where two areas are of particular interest: chess-playing programs and automated theorem-proving programs. He has published seven books on these subjects and a number of research papers as well. He served as chairman of the ACM Computer Chess Committee from 1981 until 1997. In that capacity he organized the first Kasparov versus Deep Blue match (known as the ACM Chess Challenge) in 1996. The following year he served as head of the officials at the [[Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1997|second Kasparov versus Deep Blue match]] won by Deep Blue. Through the 1970s and 1980s, his chess program Ostrich competed in five world championships, coming close to winning in 1974.
=Quotes=
Quote from ''Canadian Chess'' <ref>[http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessBiographiesN.html#NEWBORN Canadian Chess - Monroe (Monty) Newborn]</ref>
* Computer Science Professor, McGill University
* Programmer (originally with [[George Arnold]]) of [[Ostrich]] (also Ostrich 80, Ostrich 81), a computer chess program which competed in the ACM U.S. Computer Championships (1972-74), ACM North American Computer Championships (1975, 1977-87) and World Computer Championships (1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986)
* 2nd place ACM U.S. Computer Championship 1973 for Ostrich
* Organized first ACM U.S. Computer Championship 1970, as well as many succeeding championships
* President, [[ICCA|International Computer Chess Association]] 1983-86
* Applied results obtained from research on search algorithms in the field of computer chess to the field of internet searching
* Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001
=See also=
* [[History#AIPerspective|The History of Computer Chess - an AI Perspective - Video]]
=Selected Publications=
==1973 ...==
* [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1973'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1045181 Results of the fourth annual U.S. computer chess tournament]''. [[ACM#SIG|ACM SIGART Bulletin]], No. 42 » [[ACM 1973]]
==1975 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1975'''). ''Computer Chess''. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-125-17250-8.
: Chapter I. Introduction
: Chapter II. The History and Basic Ideas of Computer Chess
: Chapter III. [[Stanford-ITEP Match|The Kotok-McCarthy Chess Program versus the ITEP Chess Program]]
: Chapter IV. [[Mac Hack|The Greenblatt Chess Program]]
: Chapter V. [[ACM 1970|The First United States Computer Chess Championship]]
: Chapter VI. [[ACM 1971|The Second United States Computer Chess Championship]]
: Chapter VII. [[ACM 1972|The Third United States Computer Chess Championship]]
: Chapter VIII. [[Kaissa]]
: Chapter IX. [[ACM 1973|The Fourth United States Computer Chess Championship]]
: Chapter X. [[Ostrich]]: A Description of a Chess-Playing Program
: Appendix I. [[WCCC 1974|The First World Computer Chess Championship]]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=21 David vs. 12 Goliaths]''. [[Creative Computing#Best2|The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2]], edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Ahl David Ahl], hosted by [http://www.atariarchives.org/ AtariArchives.org] » [[ACM 1975]]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=22 Summary of the ACM Sixth U.S. Computer Chess Championship]''. [[Creative Computing#Best2|The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2]], edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Ahl David Ahl], hosted by [http://www.atariarchives.org/ AtariArchives.org] » [[ACM 1975]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''PEASANT: An endgame program for kings and pawns''. [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]] (Ed. [[Peter W. Frey]]), pp. 119-130
* [[Selim Akl]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''The Principal Continuation and the Killer Heuristic''. 1977 ACM Annual Conference Proceedings, pp. 466-473. ACM, Seattle, WA.
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1978'''). ''Computer Chess: Recent Progress and Further Expectations''. International Conference on Parallel Processing (ed. J. Moneta). North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-85192-5.
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1979'''). ''Recent Progress in Computer Chess''. Advances in Computers, Vol. 18, pp. 59-117. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. Reprinted (1988) in [http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4613-8716-9 Computer Games I] (ed. [[David Levy]]), pp. 226-324, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1979'''). ''Ostrich IV meets the Black Knight''. [[Personal Computing#3_10|Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 10]], pp. 74 » [[ACM 1978]], [[Ostrich]], [[Black Knight]]
==1980 ...==
* [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1980'''). ''Computer chess at ACM 79: the tournament and the man vs. man and machine match''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 23, Issue 1, [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Computer_chess_at_ACM_79/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Computer_chess_at_ACM_79.062303018.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[David Levy]], [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1980'''). ''3rd World Computer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#3_3|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3]] » [[WCCC 1980]]
* [[Tony Marsland]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1981'''). ''A brighter future for Soviet computer chess?'' [[ICGA Journal#4_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1]], [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/OldPapers/Marsland-Newborn-1981.pdf pdf]
* [[Ben Mittman]], [[Tony Marsland]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Kathe Spracklen]], [[Ken Thompson]] ('''1981'''). ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=809845&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=85837222&CFTOKEN=72556238 Computer chess: Master level play in 1981?]'' ACM 81: Proceedings of the ACM '81 conference
* [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1981'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2 More Chess and Computers, The Microcomputer Revolution, The Challenge Match]''. Computer Science Press, Inc., Potomac, Maryland. ISBN 0-914894-07-2
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1982'''). ''OSTRICH/P - a parallel search chess program, SOCS-82.3,'' McGill University, School of Computer Science, Montreal.
* [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1982, 1983'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2 All About Chess and Computers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Chess-Computers-Levy/dp/3540119329 amazon, 2nd edition]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1984'''). ''The Fourth World Microcomputer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#7_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4]] » [[WMCCC 1984]]
==1985 ...==
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1985'''). ''ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 28, No. 7, reprinted in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cef27 The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Denver Colorado, October 13-15, 1985], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1985_16th_NACCC/1985%20NACCC.062303067.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1985'''). ''A Hypothesis Concerning the Strength of Chess Programs''. [[ICGA Journal#8_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1985'''). ''A Parallel Search Chess Program''. Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference, pp. 272-277. Denver, Co.
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Winston Yu]] ('''1986'''). ''Experiments in Chess Cognition''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 4]]
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1986'''). ''Belle and Mephisto Dallas Capture Computer Chess Title at the FJCC''. reprinted in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cabbd The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1987_18th_NACCC/1987%20NACCC.062303063.sm.pdf pdf]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1988'''). ''Results of [[ACM 1987|ACM's Eighteenth Computer Chess Championship]]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 31, No. 8, [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~kopec/Publications/Publications/O_30_C.pdf pdf]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1988'''). ''Unsynchronized Iterative Deepening Parallel Alpha-Beta Search''. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 687-694. ISSN 0162-8828.
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1989'''). ''A Theorem Proving Program that Looks Like a Chess Program''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1989'''). ''Results of The Nineteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 32, No. 10, [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~kopec/Publications/Publications/O_23_C.pdf pdf], reprinted in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cb3a1 The Twentieth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1989_20th_NACCC/1989%20NACCC.062303064.sm.pdf pdf] » [[ACM 1988]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1990'''). ''[[ACM 1989|The Twentieth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]]'', in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cbb95 The 21st Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1990_21st_NACCC/1990%20NACCC.062303065.sm.pdf pdf]
* [[Monroe Newborn]], [[David Levy]] ('''1991'''). ''How Computers Play Chess''. W.H. Freeman & Co
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Michael Valvo]] ('''1992'''). ''[[ACM 1991|The 22d Annual ACM International Chess Championship]]'', in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cc6e9 The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1990_21st_NACCC/1990%20NACCC.062303065.sm.pdf pdf]
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1991'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=125497 The 21st ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 34, No. 11, [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-11640254/21st-acm-north-american.html online] » [[ACM 1990]]
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Michael Valvo]] ('''1994'''). ''The 23rd ACM NACCC in Indianapolis''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cceea The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1994_24th_ICCC/1994%20ICCC.062303013.sm.pdf pdf] » [[ACM 1993]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1994'''). ''The 24th ACM International Computer-Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#17_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3]] » [[ACM 1994]]
==1995 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1995'''). ''A Eulogy for Mikhail Moiseivich Botvinnik''. [[ICGA Journal#18_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2]] » [[Mikhail Botvinnik]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1997'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-2260-6 Kasparov versus Deep Blue: Computer Chess Comes of Age].'' [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Robert Hyatt]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1997'''). ''CRAFTY Goes Deep''. [[ICGA Journal#20_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2]] » [[Crafty]]
==2000 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''2000'''). ''Automated Theorem Proving: Theory and Practice''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [http://www.amazon.com/Automated-Theorem-Proving-Theory-Practice/dp/0387950753/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2 amazon]
==2005 ...==
* [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''2009'''). ''How Computers Play Chess''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi_Press Ishi Press], [http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Play-Chess-David-Levy/dp/4871878015/ref=sr_1_1 amazon]
==2010 ...==
* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-0-85729-340-4 Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Deep-Blue-Chess-Stratosphere/dp/0857293400 amazon] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41053 New CC book: Beyond Deep Blue] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[CCC]], November 11, 2011</ref>
: [[FILE:bejDeepBlue.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-0-85729-340-4]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Robert Hyatt]] ('''2014'''). ''Computer Chess Endgame Play with Pawns: Then and Now''. [[ICGA Journal#37_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4]] » [[Peasant]], [[Crafty]]
=External Links=
* [http://cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/ Monty Newborn], Professor School of Computer Science, [[McGill University]]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=394 Monroe Newborn's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Newborn Monty Newborn from Wikipedia]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=73408 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Monty Newborn]
* [http://chess.ca/newborn-monroe Newborn Monroe | The Chess Federation of Canada - La Fédération Canadienne des Échecs]
* [http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/%7Enewborn/TheoOctopusAtCasc06.pdf Theo and Octopus at CASC-J3] (pdf) by Monty Newborn
* [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/oral-history/newborn.oral_history.2005.102630783/newborn.oral_history_transcript.2005.102630783.pdf Oral History of Monty Newborn] (pdf) © 2005 [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/search.php?more=item_still_image&submitted=1&keywords=Newborn&all=all&item_document=item_document&item_moving_image=item_moving_image&item_artifact=item_artifact&item_still_image=item_still_image&item_oral_history=item_oral_history&item_software=item_software Images by Monty Newborn] from the [[The Computer History Museum]]
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