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[[Hans Berliner]] in his Oral History, March 2005 <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/related_materials/oral-history/hans_berliner.oral_history.2005.102630824/index.php?iid=orl-43343bb768f00 Oral History of Hans Berliner], Interviewed by: [http://www.computerhistory.org/trustee/gardner-hendrie Gardner Hendrie], Recorded: March 7, 2005, [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/oral-history/hans_berliner.oral_history.2005.102630824/berliner.oral_history_transcript.2005.103630824.pdf pdf], pp. 12-13</ref> :
And I wrote a program which actually played chess. And I did it in the way [[Richard Greenblatt|Greenblatt]] said it ought to be done <ref>[[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Donald Eastlake]] and , [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker Stephen D. Crocker]] ('''1967'''). ''The Greenblatt Chess Program''. Proceedings of the AfiPs Fall Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 31, pp. 801-810.</ref> . It wasn’t anywhere’s near as good a [[Mac Hack|Greenblatt’s program]] and I wasn’t really a very good programmer obviously, since that was the first time I had written a program...
So it played. Let’s see, I’ve got to get the timeline right here. Now this was in 1970. Now in 1970 I had already left IBM. I left IBM in 1969, and went to [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Mellon]] as a doctoral student.
