Kotok-McCarthy

[1] Between 1959 and 1962, classmates Elwyn Berlekamp, Alan Kotok, Michael Lieberman, Charles Niessen and Robert A. Wagner wrote the program while students of John McCarthy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Vladimir Arlazarov, Bitman, Anatoly Uskov and Alexander Zhivotovsky won the correspondence match played by telegraph over nine months in 1966-1967.

[7] The ITEP group was advised by Russian chess master[citation needed] Alexander R. Bitman and three-time world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.

In 1967 Mac Hack VI[10] by Richard Greenblatt with Donald E. Eastlake III became an honorary member of the United States Chess Federation[citation needed] when a person lost to it in tournament play in Massachusetts.

Mikhail Donskoy, Arlazarov and Uskov developed the ITEP program into Kaissa[citation needed] at the Institute of Control Sciences and in 1974, it became the world computer chess champion.

computer printer or typewritten output of a game board
From A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090 Computer , Alan Kotok undergraduate thesis, John McCarthy advisor, MIT 1962