Computer Chess Program (1950)

There was a Chess Program created for the computers in the early 1950s. I cannot find softeware simulation or an emulator that accurately shows the chess playing prorgram from the 1950s. So I used an Java-Based online version instead. This is the the simplified version of Computer Chess. Claude Shannon wrote the chess program for computers by writing on paper first then on computer. It's probably the first computer game ever created.

Note: This is not a accurate representation of the computer chess program in the 50s since it didn't really have like the one shown in the video as it was built from scratch in 2000s something. The Graphics from from this video are not from the 1950s. It would look more primitive than this. I was unable to find a software simulation or emulator for compter chess program from 1950s.

Here's an online Chess version I used:
http://online-chess.eu/

For more info on computer Chess and it's timeline history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• computer game
• Chess
• Claude Shannon
• 1950

[Patrick19833]

Computers exist in the 1950s, but they were not release to the public yet.

[MrEinKaffeebitte]

you are a very good chessplayer :-)

[Yazoku]

@proto57 I stand corrected

[proto57]

@Yazoku Hi: The computer was not stolen from the Nazis, it was built by the allies. What you are thinking of is the German code machine, known as the Enigma. This was stolen from a U-Boat that the German crew had failed to destroy when captured. The computer you are thinking of was one of the first electronic computers, and yes, it was used to decode enemy messages. It was at Bletchley Park, the center of such operations in England, during the war.

[Joeyboots80]

Near the end of WWII, I know for a fact a couple of nations were using computers to calculate ballistics and decode messages etc. Look up the "Harvard Mark I" that was used to do computations for the U.S. Navy. The HM1 was only analog (mechanical) though. If I remember correctly, The first true electronic (non-mechanical) computer was used in the U.K. to decipher Nazi codes and it was called the "Colussus" (Also known as the "Mark 1"). And of course after WWII, Everyone knows about the ENIAC. :)

[Yazoku]

@YTPgirlaph Well i knew they did have computers during the war because thats what they used to decript nazi messages, The computer was stolen from the nazi's by england, But i didnt realise they had computers that you can play games on in the 1950s

[YTPgirlaph]

@Yazoku Me neither. Actually, according the the show I watched. The first computers were invented like in 1940s; when WWII begun.

[Yazoku]

Wow, I didnt know computers were even around in the 1950s, Well not the sort you can play games on anyway