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[[FILE:IDIIOMGUI.jpg|border|right|thumb|350px|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/sets/72157600922175252/|[[Chris Daly]] - [[Daly CP]], [[Kenneth L. King#IDIIOM|IDIIOM]] Chess [[GUI]] prototype <ref>Picture dated November 14, 1970, [https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/modern-history/chess-in-space Chess in Space - NASA 1970 First Chess Experiments] from [https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/home Carolus Chess]</ref> <ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/sets/72157600922175252/ 14.Unique Computers: Flickr] by [[Steve Blincoe|Chewbanta]]</ref> ]]
'''Daly CP''',<br/>
an early chess program developed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA NASA] researcher [[Chris Daly]] <ref>[[Woodrow W. Bledsoe]] ('''1970'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1045152&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=93686231&CFTOKEN=33609862 First U.S. computer chess tournament]''. [[ACM#SIG|ACM SIGART]] Bulletin, No. 24</ref> with help from [[Kenneth L. King]], co-founder of [http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Information_Displays_Inc._%28deleted_14_Aug_2008_at_11:02%29#_note-0 Information Displays, Inc.] (IDI) <ref>[http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107462/1/oh362cm.pdf An Interview with Carl Machover (pdf)] by [http://www.linkedin.com/in/pfrana Philip Frana], June 20, 2002</ref> <ref>[http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9259598.htm Carl Machover, Computer Graphics Pioneer, Dies at 84], White Plains, NY (PRWEB) March 07, 2012</ref> <ref>[http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1967/dig060767.pdf SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION - NEWS DIGEST, June 7, 1967] (pdf) INFORMATION DISPLAYS PROPOSES OFFERING</ref>, the designer and manufacturer of the stand-alone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design computer-aided design] (CAD) platform [[Kenneth L. King#IDIIOM|IDIIOM]] (IDI Input-Output Machine) <ref>[http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100488426&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0&cfid=94733554&cftoken=96327999 Don Bissell] ('''1998'''). ''[http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/85.667292 Was the IDIIOM the First Stand-Alone CAD Platform?]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Annals_of_the_History_of_Computing IEEE Annals of the History of Computing], Vol. 20, No. 2</ref> .
Daly CP participated the [[ACM 1970|First United States Computer Chess Championship]] 1970 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York] and became runner-up behind [[Chess (Program)|Chess 3.0]]. It won its games versus [[Schach (US)|Schach]] and [[Awit|Wita]], and lost from [[Coko|Coko III]]. Unlike the other programs with communication links to their mainframe computers, the IDIIOM workstation was on site at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_New_York New York Hilton] <ref>[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-0%20and%203-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%205-2.1970_ACM_70/1970_ACM.062303010.pdf Special Events for Association for Computing Machinery, 25th National Conference] (pdf), hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.
=Description=
Daly CP was written in [[Assembly|assembly language]] to run on the IDIIOM system based on a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Data_Machines Varian 620/i minicomputer] <ref>[http://www.dimka.com/daily/external-pages/spies.com-~aek-orphanage.html The Minicomputer Orphanage]</ref> <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/companies.php?alpha=t-z&company=com-42bc269415ee0 Varian Data Machines] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. The program required 4KByte of [[Memory|memory]] and [[Search|searched]] all moves to [[Depth|depth]] of 4 [[Ply|ply]]. Essentially, it was an implementation of the [[Type A Strategy|Shannon Type A Strategy]] <ref>[[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1975'''). ''Computer Chess''. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-125-17250-8.</ref>. Along with [[J. Biit]] which was operated through a chess [[GUI]] written at [[Columbia University]] for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2250 IBM 2250 Display Unit] <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/elliott-frank.html#cccp Recollections of CUCC 1968-70 -The CCCP Chess Program]</ref>, Daly CP was one of the first chess programs with a [[GUI|Graphical User Interface]].
=Selected Games=
[[ACM 1970]], round 3, [[Awit|Wita]] - [[Daly CP]] <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=60&Itemid=26&lang=en PGN Download NACCC] from [http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=13&Itemid=26&lang=en Computerschaak/Downloads/Games] hosted by [[CSVN]]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "ACM 1970"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "1970.09.02"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Wita"]
[Black "Daly CP"]
[Result "0-1"]
1.e3 e5 2.d4 Qg5 3.h4 Qf6 4.Qf3 Bb4+ 5.Nc3 Qxf3 6.Nxf3 Bxc3+ 7.Bd2 Bxb2
8.Rb1 e4 9.Ne5 Ba3 10.Bb4 Bxb4+ 11.c3 Bxc3+ 12.Kd1 d6 13.Bb5+ Ke7
14.Kc2 dxe5 15.Kxc3 Be6 16.d5 Bxd5 17.Bc4 Bxc4 18.Kxc4 b6 19.Rbd1 Nd7
20.f3 exf3 21.Rd2 Ngf6 0-1
</pre>
=External Links=
* [https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/modern-history/chess-in-space Chess in Space - NASA 1970 First Chess Experiments] from [https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/home Carolus Chess]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221115817/http://classicchess.googlepages.com/Chess.htm Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], hosted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56938&start=2 Re: Old programs CHAOS and USC] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2015</ref>
=References=
<references />
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[[FILE:IDIIOMGUI.jpg|border|right|thumb|350px|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/sets/72157600922175252/|[[Chris Daly]] - [[Daly CP]], [[Kenneth L. King#IDIIOM|IDIIOM]] Chess [[GUI]] prototype <ref>Picture dated November 14, 1970, [https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/modern-history/chess-in-space Chess in Space - NASA 1970 First Chess Experiments] from [https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/home Carolus Chess]</ref> <ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/sets/72157600922175252/ 14.Unique Computers: Flickr] by [[Steve Blincoe|Chewbanta]]</ref> ]]
'''Daly CP''',<br/>
an early chess program developed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA NASA] researcher [[Chris Daly]] <ref>[[Woodrow W. Bledsoe]] ('''1970'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1045152&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=93686231&CFTOKEN=33609862 First U.S. computer chess tournament]''. [[ACM#SIG|ACM SIGART]] Bulletin, No. 24</ref> with help from [[Kenneth L. King]], co-founder of [http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Information_Displays_Inc._%28deleted_14_Aug_2008_at_11:02%29#_note-0 Information Displays, Inc.] (IDI) <ref>[http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107462/1/oh362cm.pdf An Interview with Carl Machover (pdf)] by [http://www.linkedin.com/in/pfrana Philip Frana], June 20, 2002</ref> <ref>[http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9259598.htm Carl Machover, Computer Graphics Pioneer, Dies at 84], White Plains, NY (PRWEB) March 07, 2012</ref> <ref>[http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1967/dig060767.pdf SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION - NEWS DIGEST, June 7, 1967] (pdf) INFORMATION DISPLAYS PROPOSES OFFERING</ref>, the designer and manufacturer of the stand-alone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design computer-aided design] (CAD) platform [[Kenneth L. King#IDIIOM|IDIIOM]] (IDI Input-Output Machine) <ref>[http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100488426&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0&cfid=94733554&cftoken=96327999 Don Bissell] ('''1998'''). ''[http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/85.667292 Was the IDIIOM the First Stand-Alone CAD Platform?]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Annals_of_the_History_of_Computing IEEE Annals of the History of Computing], Vol. 20, No. 2</ref> .
Daly CP participated the [[ACM 1970|First United States Computer Chess Championship]] 1970 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York] and became runner-up behind [[Chess (Program)|Chess 3.0]]. It won its games versus [[Schach (US)|Schach]] and [[Awit|Wita]], and lost from [[Coko|Coko III]]. Unlike the other programs with communication links to their mainframe computers, the IDIIOM workstation was on site at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_New_York New York Hilton] <ref>[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-0%20and%203-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%205-2.1970_ACM_70/1970_ACM.062303010.pdf Special Events for Association for Computing Machinery, 25th National Conference] (pdf), hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.
=Description=
Daly CP was written in [[Assembly|assembly language]] to run on the IDIIOM system based on a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Data_Machines Varian 620/i minicomputer] <ref>[http://www.dimka.com/daily/external-pages/spies.com-~aek-orphanage.html The Minicomputer Orphanage]</ref> <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/companies.php?alpha=t-z&company=com-42bc269415ee0 Varian Data Machines] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. The program required 4KByte of [[Memory|memory]] and [[Search|searched]] all moves to [[Depth|depth]] of 4 [[Ply|ply]]. Essentially, it was an implementation of the [[Type A Strategy|Shannon Type A Strategy]] <ref>[[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1975'''). ''Computer Chess''. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-125-17250-8.</ref>. Along with [[J. Biit]] which was operated through a chess [[GUI]] written at [[Columbia University]] for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2250 IBM 2250 Display Unit] <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/elliott-frank.html#cccp Recollections of CUCC 1968-70 -The CCCP Chess Program]</ref>, Daly CP was one of the first chess programs with a [[GUI|Graphical User Interface]].
=Selected Games=
[[ACM 1970]], round 3, [[Awit|Wita]] - [[Daly CP]] <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=60&Itemid=26&lang=en PGN Download NACCC] from [http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=13&Itemid=26&lang=en Computerschaak/Downloads/Games] hosted by [[CSVN]]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "ACM 1970"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "1970.09.02"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Wita"]
[Black "Daly CP"]
[Result "0-1"]
1.e3 e5 2.d4 Qg5 3.h4 Qf6 4.Qf3 Bb4+ 5.Nc3 Qxf3 6.Nxf3 Bxc3+ 7.Bd2 Bxb2
8.Rb1 e4 9.Ne5 Ba3 10.Bb4 Bxb4+ 11.c3 Bxc3+ 12.Kd1 d6 13.Bb5+ Ke7
14.Kc2 dxe5 15.Kxc3 Be6 16.d5 Bxd5 17.Bc4 Bxc4 18.Kxc4 b6 19.Rbd1 Nd7
20.f3 exf3 21.Rd2 Ngf6 0-1
</pre>
=External Links=
* [https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/modern-history/chess-in-space Chess in Space - NASA 1970 First Chess Experiments] from [https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/home Carolus Chess]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221115817/http://classicchess.googlepages.com/Chess.htm Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], hosted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56938&start=2 Re: Old programs CHAOS and USC] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2015</ref>
=References=
<references />
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