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jan 1, 1950 - 1950 Claude Shannon lays out the basic guidelines for programming a chess-playing computer.

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Claude Shannon lays out the basic guidelines for programming a chess-playing computer in an article, "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess." That same year both he and Englishman Alan Turing create chess programs.

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jan 1, 1950
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~ 76 years ago

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