The Bernstein Program

published by IBM in 1957, developed by Service Bureau Corporation, running on custom platform

type: board game, strategy
genre: Traditional game, Chess
perspective: other bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: eng

Description

IBM programmer Alex Bernstein playing his chess program at the console of the 704 mainframe. Bernstein told the computer what move to make by flipping the switches on the front panel. The program took about eight minutes to calculate each move.

Becoro # 2023-04-02 22:42:56 - source

Link

Bernstein play his program

Technical specs

display: text

Editor note

https://www.chessprogramming.org/The_Bernstein_Chess_Program

It was played on an IBM. The PDP-1 WAS CREATED IN 1959

Becoro # 2023-04-02 21:44:50

Authors / Staff

author

Alex Bernstein (Author)

Tags (12)

video game

culture

historical

other

hardware

traditional

activities

Contributors (3)

teran01
zerothis
Becoro

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