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|| [[image:IDIIOMGUI.jpg width="350" height="278" link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/sets/72157600922175252/"]] ||~ || **Daly CP**,
an early chess program developed by [[http://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 [[http://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?]]// [[http://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 [[http://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 [[http://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>. ||
|| [[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>  ||~   ||^   ||
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=Description=
Daly CP was written in [[Assembly|assembly language]] to run on the IDIIOM system based on a [[http://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 [[http://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>
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[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
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=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=
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