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Peter W. Frey^[1]

Peter W. Frey,
an Americanpsychologist, computer scientist andProfessor Emeritus atNorthwestern University. At the Department of Psychology at Northwestern his research focused onpattern recognition,machine learning, computer chess and computer-based decision systems. He is co-founder ofPattern Recognition Systems. Peter W. Frey is editor of and contributor toChess Skill in Man and Machine^[2], the definitive text on computer chess^[3].

Brute-force and AI

During the 70s and 80s, Peter W. Frey researched and wrote on computer chess with further impact on the development. In disagreement with the AI-establishment and their decreasing interest in (brute force) computer chess as the formerDrosophila ofAI^[4] , and unlike perhaps his colleaguesDe Groot andGobet, he was an advocate of brute forceShannon Type-A programs. His suggestion toSlate andAtkin triggered some thoughts on the matter, and as a result they dumped selective searching in 1973 in favor of full-width searching inChess 4.0^[5] .

Chess 0.5

In 1978, Peter W. Frey wrote a didactic program inPascal along withChess authorLarry Atkin, which was published asChess 0.5 inByte Magazine^[6] , and re-published on-line in 2005, available fromScott A. Moore's sites^[7]^[8].

Odin

Odin,Thor andFreyr^[9]

Further working with Larry Atkin, Peter W. Frey is co-author of the strong commercialOthello programOdin^[10]^[11], which ran as module in theChafitz Modular Game System and theApplied Concepts Great Game Machine^[12].

Selected Publications

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1976 ...

Peter W. Frey,Peter Adesman (1976).Recall Memory for Visually Presented Chess Positions.Memory & Cognition, Vol. 4, No. 5, 541-547
Peter W. Frey (ed.) (1977).Chess Skill in Man and Machine. Springer, New York, N.Y. 2nd ed. 1983. ISBN 0-387-90815-3.

Peter W. Frey (1977).An Introduction to Computer Chess.Chess Skill in Man and Machine pp. 54-81

Peter W. Frey,Larry Atkin (1978).Creating a Chess Player. An Essay on Human and Computer Chess Skill,BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 182-191.pdf fromThe Computer History Museum
Peter W. Frey,Larry Atkin (1978).Creating a Chess Player, Part 2: Chess 0.5.BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 11
Peter W. Frey,Larry Atkin (1978).Creating a Chess Player, Part 3: Chess 0.5 (continued).BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 12
Peter W. Frey,Larry Atkin (1979).Creating a Chess-Player, Part 4: Thoughts on Strategy. InBlaise W. Liffick (ed.),The Byte Book of Pascal, pp. 143-155. Byte Publications, alsoBYTE, Vol. 4, No. 1
Allan Gottlieb,Peter W. Frey,David Levy,Johann Joss (1979). Letters onHandicapping Computer Chess Programs,ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1

1980 ...

Peter W. Frey (1980).Machine Othello.Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 89
Peter W. Frey (1983).The Alpha-Beta Algorithm: Incremental Updating, Well-Behaved Evaluation Functions, and Non-Speculative Forward Pruning. Computer Game-Playing (ed.Max Bramer), pp. 285-289. Ellis Horwood Limited Publishers, Chichester.
Peter W. Frey (1983).An Introduction to Computer Chess.Chess Skill in Man and Machine (ed. P.W. Frey), 2nd edition, Springer
Alan S. Wolff,Donald H. Mitchell,Peter W. Frey (1984).Perceptual Skill in the Game of Othello.The Journal of Psychology, Vol. 118, No. 1
Peter W. Frey (1985).An Empirical Technique for Developing Evaluation Functions.ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1
Peter W. Frey (1986).Algorithmic Strategies for Improving the Performance of Game-Playing Programs. InJ. Doyne Farmer,Alan Lapedes,Norman Packard,Burton Wendroff (ed.) (1986).Evolution, Games and Learning: Models for Adaptation in Machines and Nature. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference of the Center,Elsevier
Peter W. Frey (1986).Fuzzy Production Rules in Chess.ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4
Peter W. Frey (1986).A Bit-Mapped Classifier.BYTE, Vol. 11, No. 12