[LINK] Chess, Computers and AI

[Birch, Jim]

"The first chess program put into practice was designed by legendary
British mathematician Alan Turing in 1952, and he didn't even have a
computer! He processed the algorithm on pieces of paper and this "paper
machine" played a competent game."

If you're interested, like me, but don't follow the field closely, like
me, there's a great article by Gary Kasparov, the retired world
champion, on chess and computers on the New York Review of Books site.  

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592

Well worth reading - as is most stuff at the NYRB.

Jim



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