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Peter Kent [1] Peter Kent,

a British computer scientist and programmer from Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire. In 1969 Peter started to work on Alex Bell's Atlas program, which was a reproduction of Nils Barricelli's chess program in Algol. It was later rewritten to PL/1 with the help of John Birmingham, and in 1973 Alex Bell joined the team to develop the chess playing program Minimax algorithm Tester, short Master, which competed the first three World Computer Chess Championships [2], from 1975 with Kent [3] and Birmingham as sole authors. Both authors further improved Master, and as scientists, talked about their secrets in tree searching techniques and Mate at a Glance during the first two Advances in Computer Chess conferences, published as Proceedings by Mike Clarke, and reprinted in David Levy's Computer Chess Compendium.

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Peter Kent (1973). A Simple Working Model. in Alex Bell (ed.) (1973). Computer Chess. Proceedings May 1973 Meeting on chess playing by computer. Science Research Council, Atlas Computer Laboratory, pp. 15-27
John Birmingham, Peter Kent (1977). Tree-searching and tree-pruning techniques. Advances in Computer Chess 1, (Ed. M.R.B. Clarke), pp. 89–107. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 0-852-24292-1. reprinted in Computer Chess Compendium by D.N.L. Levy (ed.), pp. 123-128
John Birmingham, Peter Kent [7] (1980). Mate at a Glance. Advances in Computer Chess 2, (Ed. M.R.B. Clarke), pp. 122–130. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 0-85224-377-4. reprinted in Computer Chess Compendium by D.N.L. Levy (ed.), pp. 258-265
Peter Kent (1980). The MASTER Chess Program. Advances in Computer Chess 2 (ed. M.R.B. Clarke), pp. 131-142. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 0-85224-377-4.