Comments on: Games Research http://www.barneypell.com Fri, 07 May 2010 13:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Dowe http://www.barneypell.com/games-research/comment-page-1/#comment-1369 David Dowe Fri, 07 May 2010 13:32:55 +0000 http://174.120.172.92/~barneype/?page_id=139#comment-1369 Subject: Wallace chess-like game where both sides move simultaneously Hi, Barney. I'm not sure whether you know of Chris Wallace (1933-2004), the originator of Minimum Message Length (MML) [in Wallace & Boulton, 1968], 10 years and many papers before certain rival methods. In Sept 2008 (Vol. 51, No. 5), the Computer Journal (Oxford U Press) ran a Christopher Stewart WALLACE (1933-2004) memorial special issue [http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol51/issue5] paying tribute to his work in a vast range of areas - MML, fast multiplication, random number generation, etc. In my D. L. Dowe (2008a) ``Foreword re C. S. Wallace'' (pp523-560) www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#Dowe2008a as guest editor of this special issue, in footnote 51 (sec. 0.2.2, pp526-527) I mention a chess-like game of Wallace's in which both sides move(d) simultaneously. It would be great to see this game implemented in code and played. As the abovementioned Computer J special attests to, I am far from alone in believing that Wallace would have been a more than deserving Turing award recipient. Best, David Dowe. http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol51/issue5 www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#Dowe2008a Subject: Wallace chess-like game where both sides move simultaneously

Hi, Barney.

I’m not sure whether you know of Chris Wallace (1933-2004), the originator of Minimum Message Length (MML) [in Wallace & Boulton, 1968], 10 years and many papers before certain rival methods. In Sept 2008 (Vol. 51, No. 5), the Computer Journal (Oxford U Press) ran a
Christopher Stewart WALLACE (1933-2004) memorial special issue
[http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol51/issue5]
paying tribute to his work in a vast range of areas – MML, fast multiplication,
random number generation, etc.

In my D. L. Dowe (2008a) “Foreword re C. S. Wallace” (pp523-560)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#Dowe2008a
as guest editor of this special issue, in footnote 51 (sec. 0.2.2, pp526-527)
I mention a chess-like game of Wallace’s in which both sides move(d) simultaneously.

It would be great to see this game implemented in code and played.

As the abovementioned Computer J special attests to, I am far from
alone in believing that Wallace would have been a more than deserving
Turing award recipient.

Best,

David Dowe.

http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol51/issue5
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#Dowe2008a

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