Before Deep Blue And Stockfish There Was Belle

July 15, 2021 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In 1983 BELLE became the first chess machine to achieve
master-level play, with a USCF rating of 2250. Developed
by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software)
at Bell Labs, it won the ACM North American Computer
Chess Championship five times and the 1980 World
Computer Chess Championship. The overall architecture
of Belle was used for the initial designs of ChipTest, the
progenitor of IBM Deep Blue.
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Blitz 5 (Computer) vs Belle (Computer)
ACM NACCC (1978), Washington, Dec-??
Four Knights Game: Spanish. Rubinstein Variation (C48)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. Bc4 Bc5 6. Nxe5 Qe7 7. Bxf7+ Kf8 8. Ng6+ hxg6 9. Bc4 Nxe4 10. O-O Rxh2 11. Kxh2 Qh4+ 12. Kg1 Ng3 13. Qh5 gxh5 14. fxg3+ Nf3#
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https://www.chessprogramming.org/Belle
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