Former Student Completes 30-Year-Old Chess Engine Feature Envisioned by Middle School Teacher
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A 30-Year-Old Promise Kept: Reviving a Chess Engine’s Lost Feature In 1996, Len Dorfman, a middle school computer teacher on Long Island, embedded a placeholder in his freeware chess engine, PAX. Under the Learning menu, a single line read: “The feature will be coded after PAX starts learning.” It…
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Former Student Completes 30-Year-Old Chess Engine Feature Envisioned by Middle School Teacher