The Technology Chess Program

56 Years old DEC PDP-10 soft. Gillogly, James

The Technology Chess Program © 1970 Gillogly, James.

Chess program using a Shannon Type A Strategy.

TRIVIA

Developed at Carnegie Mellon University.

The game competed three times at the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship and was a runner up in 1971 and 1972.

It was one of the first chess programs to use brute force instead of evaluating a small subset of moves.

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Primary Author: James J. Gillogly
Acknowledgements: Hans Berliner, Allen Newell