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<ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hedberg:Sara_Reese.html Sara Hedberg] ('''1997'''). ''AAAI-97 Highlights - Developments in the AI Field''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 18, No. 4, [http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/1328/1229 pdf]</ref>
* [[Mac Hack|Mac Hack 6]], developed by [[Richard Greenblatt]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], was the first computer program to play in a human chess tournament. It was the first program to play and win in a tournament game in 1967.
* The [[Northwestern University]] [[Chess (programProgram)|computer chess program]], developed by [[David Slate]] and [[Larry Atkin]] from the 1960s to the early 1980s, won several computer chess championships during the 1970s, including the [[WCCC 1977|computer world championship in 1977]].
* [[Belle]], developed by [[Ken Thompson]] and [[Joe Condon]] at [[Bell Laboratories|Bell Labs]], was the first chess program to obtain the United States Chess Federation Master title in 1983. It was awarded the first Fredkin Prize of $5,000 for this achievement.
* [[HitechHiTech]], developed at [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Mellon]] by [[Hans Berliner]], [[Carl Ebeling]], [[Murray Campbell]] and [[Gordon Goetsch]], was the first system to achieve a Senior Master’s level of performance in 1988.
* [[Deep Thought]], developed at Carnegie Mellon by [[Thomas Anantharaman]], [[Murray Campbell]], [[Feng-hsiung Hsu]], [[Andreas Nowatzyk]] and [[Mike Browne]], was the first system to play at the Grandmaster level. Deep Thought was awarded the $10,000 Fredkin Intermediate Prize for this achievement in 1989 <ref>[[Hans Berliner]] ('''1989'''). ''Deep Thought Wins Fredkin Intermediate Prize''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 10, No. 2, [http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/viewFile/753/671 pdf]</ref>.
* [[Deep Blue]], a parallel supercomputer that processes an average of 200 million chess positions per second, is the first chess machine to draw and beat a world chess champion in a regulation game, and the first chess machine to beat the world champion in a regulation match.
