Robot Chess
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Robot Chess is an early chess game in which the user can play against an AI. The AI is only powerful enough to compute "mate-in-two" problems and thus the game didn't represent a full game of chess. Players would enter moves of the Ferranti Mark 1 and the computer would print out the response move. The simulation ignores some chess rules such as en passant, promotion and castling.
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Robot Chess is the earliest known chess computer game that was actually implemented. It is pre-dated by Alan Turing's Turochamp and Machiavelli, which was written by Donald Michie and Shaun Wylie, but neither of these games was ever programmed into a computer as there wasn't a computer powerful enough to run it.
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Game added by vedder.
Additional contributors: Daniel Saner, Alaka, clement goh.
Game added May 28, 2017. Last modified February 22, 2023.