Computer Chess Reports
- Published Date
- January 1986
- Issue Date
- 1 Jan 1986
- Volume
- 1
- Number
- 1
- Author(s)
- James, Boris
- Editor(s)
- Richard, James, Robert Sostack, Larry Kaufman
Although some pundits had been claiming that chess computers had reached a plateau, this proved not to be the case this year. A giant leap was made by the first successful program to run on a Motorola 68000 chip, the Mephisto "S" (Amsterdam). It also proved to be the first selective search program to be an ungualified success.