A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090 Computer

a.k.a. Kotok-McCarthy-Program

created and published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962-05, running on custom platform

type: turn-based, strategy, board game
genre: Traditional game, Chess
perspective: other
player options: single player

languages: other

Description

Kotok-McCarthy also known as A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090 Computer was the first computer program to play chess convincingly. It is also remembered because it played in and lost the first chess match between two computer programs.

Becoro # 2023-04-03 17:01:52 - source

Technical specs

display: Monotone

Editor note

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotok-McCarthy

Becoro # 2023-06-21 16:58:17

Authors / Staff

coding

Alan Kotok (programming)
Charles Niessen (additional programming)
Elwyn Berlekamp (additional programming)
John McCarthy (programming)
Michael A. Lieberman (additional programming)
Robert A. Wagner (additional programming)