Draughts

Draughts (1952)

by Christopher Strachey
Genres:Card & Board Game
Game modes:Single player
Story:A game of draughts (a.k.a. checkers) written for the Ferranti Mark 1 computer by Christopher Strachey at the University of Manchester between 1951 and 1952. In the summer of 1952, the program was able to "play a complete game of Draughts at a reasonable speed".
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January 30, 2025
I've added this as to see just what lines The Staff will draw in regards to games being wished for. Seeing as this title runs on some ancient mainframe none of us have ready access to, nor is there any ready (user feasible) emulator for, it would be deemed improbable for this title to come to any serious head. Ergo, I put this wish here as a test to see how entirely serious this new DreamList™ is. Should the staff be considered serious to the ideal of feasibility, I'd imagine this to be struck off soon.
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