Game of Draughts
created and published by University of Manchester in 1951-02, running on custom platform
type: board game
genre: Traditional game, Checkers
perspective: other
player options: shared-screen
languages: other
genre: Traditional game, Checkers
perspective: other
player options: shared-screen
languages: other
Description
In February 1951 British computer scientist Christopher StracheyOffsite Link finished a program for the game of draughts, or checkers. The game ran for the first time on the Pilot ACE at the National Physical LaboratoryOffsite Link, Teddington, on July 30, 1951, but completely exhausted the machine's memory.
"When Strachey heard about the Manchester Mark 1Offsite Link, which had a much bigger memory, he asked his former fellow-student Alan Turing for the manual and transcribed his program into the operation codes of that machine by around October 1951. The program could 'play a complete game of draughts at a reasonable speed' " (Wikipedia article on Christopher Strachey, accessed 09-12-2012).
Becoro # 2023-04-02 22:22:29 - source
"When Strachey heard about the Manchester Mark 1Offsite Link, which had a much bigger memory, he asked his former fellow-student Alan Turing for the manual and transcribed his program into the operation codes of that machine by around October 1951. The program could 'play a complete game of draughts at a reasonable speed' " (Wikipedia article on Christopher Strachey, accessed 09-12-2012).
Becoro # 2023-04-02 22:22:29 - sourceTechnical specs
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