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**Dart**, (Dart 4.1)
a chess program developed at [[Dartmouth College]] as successor of [[Dartmouth CP]] by a team around [[Larry Harris]] and primary author [[Warren Montgomery]], supported by [[Danny Kopec]], [[Hal Terrie]], and [[David Levner]] et al. <ref>[[http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/about/archive/history/timeline/1970s.html#1973|The Dartmouth Computing Timeline - The 1970s - 1973 - Chess Program in Tournament]]</ref>  <ref>[[Danny Kopec]] (**1977**). //Recent developments in computer chess//. Firbush News 7 Edinburgh: Machine Intelligence Research Unit, [[University of Edinburgh]] (ed. [[Donald Michie]]), [[http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~kopec/Publications/Publications/O_45_C.pdf|pdf]] - Work at Dartmouth College</ref>. Dart was written in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Comprehensive_Operating_System|GCOS]] [[Assembly|assembly]], the language for the [[Honeywell 6000|GE-635]], to run under the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Time_Sharing_System|Dartmouth Time Sharing System]].

=ACM 1974=
Dart 4.1 played the [[ACM 1974]] in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego|San Diego]], where it lost from [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.2]] and [[CHAOS]], and won from [[Xenarbor]] and [[Ostrich]].
[[#Chess]]
=Selected Games=
==Chess==
[[ACM 1974]], round 1, [[Dart|Dart 4.1]] - [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.2]] 
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[Event "ACM 1974"]
[Site "San Diego USA"]
[Date "1974.11.10"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dart 4.1"]
[Black "Chess 4.2"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Nc3 g4 5.Ne5 Qh4+ 6.g3 fxg3 7.Qxg4 g2+ 8.Qxh4 
gxh1=Q 9.Qh5 Bb4 10.Nxf7 Nf6 11.Nd6+ Kd8 12.Nf7+ Ke7 13.Nd5+ Nxd5 14.Nxh8 Qxe4+ 
15.Be2 Nf4 16.Qg5+ Kf8 17.Qg4 Bd6 18.Qf3 Qxe2+ 19.Qxe2 Nxe2 20.Kxe2 Bxh2 21.d3 Be5 
22.Bh6+ Ke7 23.Bg5+ Ke6 24.Rf1 Bxh8 25.Rf8 Bxb2 26.Rxc8 Be5 27.Re8+ Kd6 28.Rf8 h5 
29.c4 c6 30.a4 b6 31.Rf7 Na6 32.Ke3 Nc5 33.a5 Rg8 34.Bh4 bxa5 35.Kd2 Rg2+ 36.Ke3 
Bd4+ 37.Kxd4 Rg4+ 38.Kc3 Rxh4 39.Rf6+ Ke5 40.Rf3 a4 41.Re3+ Kd6 42.Kd2 a3 43.Rg3 
a2 44.Rg1 a1=Q 45.Rxa1 Nb3+ 46.Kc3 Nxa1 47.Kb2 Rh1 48.Kc3 Ke5 49.c5 Rh2 50.Kc4 a5 
51.d4+ Ke4 52.Kc3 Rc2# 0-1
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[[#Ostrich]]
==Ostrich==
[[ACM 1974]], round 3, [[Dart|Dart 4.1]] - [[Ostrich]] 
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[Event "ACM 1974"]
[Site "San Diego USA"]
[Date "1974.11.11"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dart 4.1"]
[Black "Ostrich"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 dxe4 3.Nxe4 Nd7 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 Nh6 6.O-O Be7 7.d4 O-O 8.Bxh6 gxh6 
9.c4 Nb6 10.Qc1 f5 11.Nc3 Bg5 12.Qc2 a5 13.Rfe1 Bf6 14.Rad1 Bd7 15.c5 Nc8 16.Bc4 
Qe8 17.Qb3 Kg7 18.Qxb7 Ra7 19.Qb3 Kf7 20.Bxe6+ Bxe6 21.d5 Ra6 22.dxe6+ Kg6 23.Qc4 
Rc6 24.Ne5+ Bxe5 25.Rxe5 Nb6 26.Qd4 Nc8 27.Rde1 Ne7 28.Qa4 Rf6 29.f4 Qa8 30.Qd4 
Qb7 31.Nd5 Rcxe6 32.Rxe6 Nxd5 33.Rxf6+ Nxf6 34.Re6 Qe4 35.Qxf6+ Kh5 36.Rxe4 Kg4 
37.Qg7+ 1-0
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=External Links=
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart|Dart (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28programming_language%29|Dart (programming language) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28missile%29|Dart (missile) from Wikipedia]]

=References= 
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=What links here?=
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