ETAOIN SHRDLU

Moby ID: 131874

Released: 1975 on Mainframe
Credits: 1 person

Moby Score: n/a

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

Supported Systems/Models: Data General Nova
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

Description

ETAOIN SHRDLU is a chess program running on a Nova 1200 minicomputer. The game competed at the American Computer Chess Championships in 1975 and 1976. The name refers to the most commonly used letters in the English letters which also form the first two columns of common type-casting machine keyboards.

Credits (Mainframe version)

Written by

Garth Courtois Jr.

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MobyGames ID: 131874

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Game added by vedder.

Game added August 6, 2019. Last modified February 22, 2023.