Title:
Oral History of Richard Greenblatt

Date:
2005-01-12

Pages:
56 p.

Interviewer:
Hendrie, Gardner; interviewer, cameraperson
Greenblatt, Richard; interviewee

Abstract:
Richard Greenblatt, an MIT programmer and accomplished chess player developed the MacHack VI program for the DEC PDP-6 computer, which played at a level far above its predecessors. In 1967 it was the first computer to play against a person in a chess tournament and earned a rating of 1400, the level of a good high-school player.

Keywords:
MacHack VI
LMI
LISP machine
model railroad club
chess software
MIT

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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