Talk:Kotok-McCarthy

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[edit] Source of to play "credibly"

Does anyone happens to know the source of calling Kotok-McCarthy the first program to play regular chess "credibly"? We could add it to this article. Maybe I need to write to Bill Wall. xplor in this thread on ChessNinja.com seemed to me to attribute the word "credibly" to David Bergamini in his 1963 book Mathematics or "The mathematics of beauty in nature and art." The Bill Wall History of Computer Chess and CSAIL timeline both say credibly. I accidently bought Bergamini and LIFE's book "Mathematics" and unless I missed it it doesn't have that quote or the same title. It does have the photograph but I don't recognize the two men or know what computer they are using. For now until the source is known and so the word isn't copied forward without attribution, the article says Kotok-McCarthy was the first to play "convincingly." --Susanlesch 03:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)