Waits: Arthur Samuel's Checkers

Time Reshared Exploring time-sharing operating systems Home The List MIT CTSS Dartmouth DTSS Burroughs MCP DEC TOPS-10 Stanford WAITS Michigan MTS Tags RSS feed github © 2026 Rupert Lane WAITS: Arthur Samuel's Checkers Sun, Aug 9, 2026 dec pdp-10 waits Although chess was a popular target, one of the earliest examples of using classical pre-LLM artificial intelligence to play games was checkers/draughts. Arthur Samuel wrote one of the first such programs in the early 1950s, ported this t