Leonardo Torres Quevedo biography
Leonardo Torres Quevedo, (born Dec. 28, 1852, Santa Cruz, Spain—died Dec. 18, 1936, Madrid), Spanish engineer. In 1890 he launched an electromagnetic system able to enjoying a restricted type of chess. Though it didn't at all times play the very best strikes and typically took for much longer than a reliable human participant to win, it demonstrated the aptitude of machines to be programmed to comply with specified guidelines (heuristics) and marked the beginnings of analysis into the event of synthetic intelligence.