Duchess

Moby ID: 124576

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Released: 1974 on Mainframe
Credits: 3 people

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 1 players

Genre: Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Pacing: Turn-based
Gameplay: Board game
Chess
Interface: Text parser

Input Devices Supported/Optional: Teletype/Teleprinter
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player
Number of Online Players: 1 Player

See Also

Duchess (1986 on Apple II)

Description

Duchess is a chess program. It runs on an IBM 370/168. The AI uses iterative deepening and searches roughly 200,000 nodes every three minutes. It knows 3,000 opening positions to get a game started after which the AI takes over. The game managed to reach the second place at the 1977 World Computer Chess Championship.

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Game added by vedder.

Game added April 7, 2019. Last modified February 22, 2023.