Robotics Reference
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Figure 22.
Alex Bernstein with chessboard and the IBM 704 (Courtesy of IBM Corpo-
rate Archives)
Greenblatt. Work on the program began in November 1966 and within
three months it was ready to play in a human Chess tournament, the first
program ever to do so in any game. MacHack's first tournament result
was hardly spectacular—it played five games, losing four and drawing the
other one, for which it achieved a rating of 1243 on the U.S. Chess Fed-
eration scale and a lowly Class D designation from the federation. Work
continued on the program and in April 1967 MacHack played in a four-
