Draughts
Genre:
Card & Board Game
Platform:
Legacy Computer
A game of draughts (a.k.a. checkers) written for the Ferranti Mark 1 computer by Christopher Strachey at the University of Manchester between 1951 and 1952. In the summer of 1952, the program was able to "play a complete game of Draughts at a reasonable speed".
Released on Aug 31st 1952
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