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Win? rosramme to Computer chess players hope machine will dowell during national tournament ley said. I'L doesn't have a computer that will run the game fast enough. So the students had to find a local company to donate computer time. With the help of Dr. Warren Jones, assistant professor of computer science, the team obtained the use of a comDuter from Metridata Computing Inc.

When the students get to San Diego, they will have to call Metridata long distance so the program can be hooked to a terminal in California and run against other computer games. ACM will pay for the long distance calls that are expected to take about 16 hours. UL's student senate is paying the cost of the students' trip and stay during the three-day event. Although all Presley and Morris will have to do is punch the proper keys on the terminal, the computer matches will hold some of the same tension as games between humans. Presley said teams know from watching the screens who's winning or losing.

But as Morris put it: "There's nothing you can do about it." The two explained that each computer must be able to make 40 moves in two hours about one every three minutes. However, one game could last as long as four hours, they noted. The students have sharpened their program to meet the time requirement and also have given the computer the ability to make a move and simultaneously anticipate its next four moves. According to national chess standards, Presley said, the students' program rates somewhere between 1500 and 1600. The ratings are determined by mathematical equations based on the number of games By WANDA NICHOLS Courier-Journal Staff Writer Chefs is considered a sophisticated, mentally draining match of wits that usually lasts longer than other popular board games.

But two computers programmed to compete against eacn other in chess add a new excitement to the game. At least that's how two University of Louisville seniors who have developed a computer chess program feel. The excitement for Ken Presley and Jim Morris is the "artificial intelligence" employed in a computer chess match. The 21-year-old students will compete with U.S. teams and two teams from Canada in a national tournament at San Diego, Nov.

10-12. Presley wrote his first computer chess program about 2 1-2 years ago, with the idea of someday entering it in a contest. He says it was a "real basic program" and took about a month to complete. "It played terribly," he said. Since that time, Presley and Morris, both computer science students, have spent countless hours rewriting the program, developing a more complicated game and "getting the bugs out." "It would be hard to come up with a total figure" of the number of hours spent trying to perfect the game, Presley said.

But he estimated he and Morris have worked eight hours a day in the last week. To construct the computer game, Presley said he typed a complicated set of mathematical formulas into a terminal hooked up to a computer. And like most mechanical brains, the computer occasionally flashed questions when it was puzzled. But eventually it swallowed the information sent to it and stored each formula for future use. The computer also digested a code to represent the squares on a chess board.

Letters serve as the chess pieces for king, for rook, for knight and so on. During the tournament games, the computers will be pitted against each other. The team members will only start the computer terminal and then type in each move made by the opposing computer. Other than that, the computers are on their own. On each computer's turn, it must select a move from its game program and print out its selection on the terminal screen.

Presley and Morris said their program provides for six moves on each play. The computer selects its own moves in response io its opoonent's actions. Presley said he and Morris have worked on their computer's game to where it now operates from a "pretty good" program, even though there are a few errors that need correcting. "We'll have it ready for the tournament if it takes 24 hours a day," Morris said. The competition is being sponsored by the National Association of Computer Machinery (ACM).

Presley said the tournament-is a vehicle for computer companies to get publicity in addition to offering chess buffs a chance to compete. While the two UL students say they have made good progress, the project has had its bad moments. The main problem was finding a computer on which to run the program, Pres Jt Staff Photos by Melissa Fariow Jim Morris, left, and Ken Presley sit beside a chess game can be shown. The computer chess display screen oti which the moves of a computer buffs will play soon in a national tourney. won, lost or drawn, he said.

A pro like world champion Bobby Fischer would have a rating of about 2800. Presley said. He estimated his rating at 1700 and Morris' at 1500. Both are on UL's chefs team. "We're not real good chess players," Presley said, "but we're good." Presley, who did most of the talking in an interview "Jim's my assistant," he explained said they have a good chance of placing in the competition.

For the last four years a team from Northwestern University has won, he said. But the most encouraging note, Presley said, is that no one has come up with a computer chess program to beat the "bet ter human players. At best, the computer programs can only beat the weaker human players." Presley said he used to play sample games against his computer program. "I've never had any trouble beating my program," he said. "But that's not to say I could not make the program good enough that it couldn't one day beat me." Times me SECTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1974 7-S NFO calf giveaway to Louisvillians still appears scheduled tomorrow mmmmm lit' ax: at I Vf 1 tl', fun mil i If If, v- it 1 lirT? PI jl4i By LYNN BYNUM Courier-Journal Staff Writer Kentucky farmers' plans to give away as many as 500 calves tomorrow are apparently still on, according to an official at the Kentucky State Fairgrounds where the distribution is scheduled to occur.

Members of the National Farmers Organization (NFO) in Kentucky voted Friday to bring their calves to Louisville and give them away to all comers, provided the recipients are residents of the city of Louisville. Jerry Boone of Howards-town, a board member of the organization, said Friday he expects up to 300 farmers to arrive with calves. Boone said the farmers are taking these steps to protest low farm prices without going to the extreme measures Wisconsin farmers used slaughtering and burying 658 head of cattle. Lonnie Tomt-s, duly manager at the fairgrounds yesterday, said officials there had been notified late Friday afternoon by the NFO to expect the cattle tomorrow morning. The give-away will take place between noon and 5 p.m.

in the west wing of the complex near the loading docks. The staff at the fairgrounds had no further information and will not furnish any labor to aid the farmers, Tomes said. "We have no idea what kind of system they're going to use to give the cattle away," Tomes said. "We're just providing the location." The legality of Louisville residents keeping cattle within the city limits has been questioned, but Burt J. Dertsch, city law director, said there is no ordinance prohibiting this.

The only ordinaire on the books regarding this is titled "Livestock in City." Louisville. Although he would not say what farm had been designated, one source said the farm might be on Fegen-bush Lane. Boone said that new calf owners would have to sign an agreement to care for the calves for six months. After that, they could dispose of the cattle however they wanted. According to Lane, the farmers could slaughter the calves themselves, but the Department of Agriculture would be.

responsible for seeing that proper facilities and methods were used for the slaughter. Those laws include such items as opening each body cavity and sprinkling the carcasses with quicklime to disinfect them, Lane said. The calves would also have to be buried at least four feet underground. Local humane society officials also have voiced their concerns about the cattle giveaway. A telegram from Mrs.

Frank T. Stickler, president of the Kentucky Humane Society-Animal Rescue League, was to be sent to Mayor Harvey I. Sloane formally protesting the farmers' plans. Mrs. Strickler said yesterday she believes "it's terribly cruel" to just give the calves away to people "who will get tired of them an either neglect them or slaughter them." She said she would prefer that the cattle were butchered humanely, Mrs.

Strickler said she also expects to receive a lot of complaints in the future if the giveaway takes place The humane shelter has only one fulltime person to investigate complaints of cruelty and would not be able to handle additional complaints about the cattle, she said. Residents are only forbidden to keep "any swine, sheep and goats." The 1958 laws omits cattle. Bruce K. Lane, director of environmental health services for the city health department, said that as far as he knows, people can keep the calves as long as the cattle are- kept clean and their body wastes are properly disposed of. However, he warned that, "People will have problems if they try to tie cattle up behind an apartment or in too small an area because neighbors will complain about the cattle and manure odor." If the health department receives any complaints about either the manure, the odor, or excessive numbers of flies, Lane said health officers will issue citations to the cattle owners.

"An animal like that will produce an awful lot of manure," Lane said. Dr. T. S. Wallace director of the health department, agreed with Lane.

He specifically mentioned that handling of the calves' body wastes and storage of their food to avoid rats will be the major problems facing new owners. Lane also said that he did not think the city had an ordinance detailing the amount of space an owner must provide for each calf, although there is such a law regarding horses kept in a stable. The farmers have said they will ask a slaughterhouse to slaughter the cattle they cannot give away free and donate the meat to charity, Boone said. But if a slaughterhouse won't do it, the NFO will seek federal or state money to pay for the slaughter. And if all that fails, Boone said the farmers will kill the calves themselves and bury the remains on a farm outside Staff Photo by Keith Williams The easy ivay Archie Vick knows how to paint a gable without on his ladder.

Vick was working last week on this getting a stiff neck' he just stands backward house at 2900 W. Walnut St. reed billy Courier-Journal Columnist "-i II fill if '-x lj In 1972, Little Enis picked and sang rock and roll across Kentucky in places like this bar in Lexington. No longer on. rocks, Little Enis changes for a country comeback Staff Photo LEXINGTON, Ky.

On the night of his concert, Little Enis wore a white turtleneck, fancy black suit and black-and-white wingtip shoes. His hair, still black and shiny, was slicked back in the old ducktail. For a guy who is old before his time, one who has a pacemaker in his heart, a liver eaten by alcohol, and varicose veins, Enis looked pretty slick. He's had to change his act, of course. Back in the old days, the 1950s and early '60s, this chubby little rascal with the pinched-up face and hering, toothless smile was the wildest rock-n-roller in Central.

Kentucky. Little Enis and the Fabulous Table Toppers. Little Enis, the undisputed king of the roadhouses, the dives, the frat houses, all the places where people danced, smoked, got into fistfights and chugs-lugged beer. But all that's gone now. Enis is 41, going on 65.

And the rompin', stomp-in' Little Enis of yesterday has given way to a more subdued model. Instead of twisting and shouting, he just strums the guitar in his peculiar left-handed way and sings country. He's doing all right with it, too, better in many ways than he ever did with rock-n-roll. He's put out a new album, entitled "I Kept the Wine and Threw Away the Roses." He's going to Hawaii in January for a six-week gig at a big hotel. On the night I saw him, he was even appearing "in concert" at a classy little place called the Diners Playhouse.

In a rather novel arrangment, the Playhouse ordinarily a place where people go to cat dinner and watch Broadway plays had been converted into a minor-league Grand 01' Opry. There was a full card of country singers and pickers. When they were done with their numbers, they sat down on the bales of hay that had been placed near the stage. Little Enis (his real name is Carlos Toadvine) was the star of the show. The emcee introduced him as "a legend in his own time," and, in a way, there's some truth in that.

Anbyody who did much partying around here in the old days knows who Little Enis is. "Some of this stuff's too country for me, to tell ya the said Enis, mopping his brow during intermission. "Did ya see the boy playin' the electric guitar? The one with the white socks? I tell fa, I'd rather do more of the rock stuff, I feel more comfortable with it. "But I gotta be careful. My doctor's mad at me 'cause I'm 15 pounds overweight.

I eat like a horse. And my legs hurt me. I got these varicose veins, ya see, so I gotta wear these special support hose to keep 'em in." At his rock-n-roll peak, Enis strutted about in sequined suits, traveled the countryside in his own bus, earned money well into five figures, drank and ate with tremendous appetite. deal was a direct result of the Playboy story. There Enis will get $500 a week, plus expenses.

Even so, beneath his new image, some of the old Enis remains. He's lost his appetite for liquor now he drinks nothing stronger than soft drinks but he hasn't lost his sense of humor. He likes to tell about when he was in the hospital getting fixed up with his pacemaker. "I was layin' there in bed with my guitar, and the doctor said, 'Enis, play some dirty So I did. Man, you shoulda seen the nurses fly." The naughty old Enis laughed at the memory.

The slicked-up new one got up to go sing some country. ones. Then Playboy magazine did a special 17-page story about him, written by an erstwhile University of Kentucky student and professor who used to follow Enis at the Palms, the Plantation, Brock's all the dim little places where he used to play. "I made $60,000 off that story," says Enis. "I walked in and paid off my hospital bills in one payment.

By then they were up to $30,000. That copy of the magazine sold 45 million they tell me. I got telegrams from all over." Now he's sniffing roses again. In Lexington, he can command $100 a night not Vegas scale, perhaps, but not bad for around here. The Hawaii But a couple of years ago, all that was gone.

He seemed to be washed up. The bottle had done him in, he said. Too many sleepless nights, too much booze. At his worst, Enis sometimes drank a quart a day, beginning at breakfast. At 37, he had a severe heart attack, and his fragile world disintegrated.

In and out of hospitals, he ran up a $10,000 medical bill and had no job to speak of. When a rock star can't rock, what's left? Enis turned to country and got a job in a joint on South Broadway. Some newspaper publicity enabled him to move from that place to some nicer I.