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The Samuel Checkers-playing Program

IBM 701 soft. published 72 years ago by Samuel, A.L.

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The Samuel Checkers-playing Program © 1952 Samuel, A.L.

Play checkers against the computer.

TRIVIA

The game was updated until the mid 70s and ran on various computers including the IBM 701, IBM 704 and IBM 7094.

The program has around 10,000 instructions.

on the IBM 704, the program can evaluate a board position in 2.4 milliseconds, make a move in 1.5 miliseconds, find all available moves from a specific position in 2.6 milliseconds and evaluate the computer's position in 7.5 milliseconds.

STAFF

Programmed by: Arthur Lee Samuel

SOURCES

Game Playing with Computers, Donald D. Spencer (1968) Page 13-14