Chess

a.k.a. 6x6-board Chess

created and published by Los Alamos Atomic Energy Laboratory in 1956, running on custom platform

type: board game, strategy
genre: Traditional game, Chess variant
perspective: other
player options: single player

Description

Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess[1]) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program. This program was written at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory by Paul Stein and Mark Wells for the MANIAC I computer[2] in 1956. The reduction of the board size and the number of pieces from standard chess was due to the very limited capacity of computers at the time.

Becoro # 2023-04-02 22:39:32 - source

Technical specs

hardware: Maniac I,

display: text

Editor note

PDP-1, was created in 1959, not 1956. It was played in "MANIAC I"

It wasn't technically a video game.

https://losalamosreporter.com/2022/04/12/lanl-70-years-of-electronic-computing/

Becoro # 2023-04-02 20:35:34