Kathe Spracklen (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sargon III: The Ultimate in Computer Chess. Spracklen, Dan and Kathe. Published by Hayden Software Co., 1983. 85p. stapled pamphlet paperback, covers lightly bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked25.00.

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Moderate rubbing and shelving wear. Binding is fine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Good. Top edge of the cover and some pages has a crease. Some rubbing wear. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 114 pages. edges rubbed. reading creases. owners details to fep. 1979. in Z-80 Assembly Language. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. pamphlet style booklet. Cover and spine in good condition. Spine is tight. Pages are clean, no markings, notes or stains. Back cover has several small ceases. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Boxed set.Ring-binding 82 page soft cover and two (2) apple software discs .

Pamphlet. Condition: Near Fine. 17, [1 (blank] pages, self wrappers. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Printed in green and black. Light overall wear. A nice copy. Pamphlet. First issued in May of 1978, this was the second to last issue of this scarce newsletter on computer chess. It was continued as the ICCA Journal which ran through 1999. According to OCLC, less than a dozen institutions have any examples of this newsletter in their collections. This issue includes an article "Tutorial: Representation of an Opening Book Tree" by Kathe Spracklen, a female mathematician and microcomputer chess pioneer. While Claude Shannon developed much of the theory of a computer playing chess in 1950, by this time microcomputers were available generally and computer nerds everywhere were experimenting with some pretty sophisticated programming (I'm a nerd myself so I can say that). It also includes a list of the participants in the ACM's 13th North American Computer Chess championship with fourteen (!!) programs competing. "Kathleen (Kathe) Spracklen was an American mathematician, computer scientist and microcomputer chess pioneer. Along with her husband Dan, Kathe started chess programming in 1977 on a Z-80 based Wavemate Jupiter III in assembly language. Their first program, Sargon had a one or two ply search without quiescence but exchange evaluation. After the success at The Second West Coast Computer Faire MCCT in March 1978, and the shared third place at ACM 1978, the Spracklens became professional computer chess programmers. Sargon II was ported to various early home computers, for instance TRS-80 and 6502 based Apple II, as well as dedicated units as Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5.