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an early chess program for the [[ICL 1900|ICL 1909/5]] mainframe computer developed in 1968 by the then 17 year-old [[John J. Scott]], at that time beside [[Atlas]] by [[Alex Bell]] the only other chess program in England <ref>[[Alex Bell]] ('''1978'''). ''[http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/applications/cocoa/p008.htm MASTER at IFIPS]''. from [[Atlas Computer Laboratory]], hosted by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_Appleton_Laboratory Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)], excerpt from [[Alex Bell]] ('''1978'''). ''The Machine Plays Chess''. Pergamon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0080212227, from [http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Plays-Chess-Pergamon/dp/0080212220 amazon]</ref>. Scott's program used an effective [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] approach <ref>[[Tony Marsland]] ('''1992'''). ''Computer Chess and Search''. Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (2nd ed.) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/RecentPapers/Marsland-CCandSearch-1991.pdf pdf preprint]</ref> and even already [[Internal Iterative Deepening|internal iterative deepening]].
Lancaster played an exhibition match versus [[Mac Hack|Greenblatt's Chess Program]] at the 1968 [[IFIP]] [[Conferences#IFIPIFIP4|conference]] held in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh Edinburgh] <ref>[[John J. Scott]] ('''1969'''). ''Lancaster vs. Mac Hack''. [[ACM#SIG|SIGART]], Vol. 16</ref>. The game was analyzed by [[Jack Good]], as published in [[Donald Michie|Donald Michie's]] ''Machine Intelligence 4'' <ref>[[Jack Good]] ('''1969'''). ''Analysis of the machine chess game, J. Scott (White), ICL-1900 versus R.D. Greenblatt, PDP-10''. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/MI/mi4.html Machine Intelligence Vol. 4]</ref>. Scott's program was further sparring partner of Atlas, the forerunner of [[Master]].
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