jan 2, 1950 - 1950 Claude Shannon lays out the basic guidelines for programming a chess-playing computer.
Description:
1950Claude 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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Date:
jan 2, 1950
Now
~ 75 years ago