Commodore's Peter Jennings wrote Microchess for the KIM-1 in 1976. A complete chess program in 924 bytes. Not kilobytes. Bytes. Today a web page cookie is bigger than an entire chess engine.

April 06, 2026 - 13:00 UTC

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I had a chat with Dr. Jennings in the late '70s (his office/lab was near my home and I walked over to buy Microchess). I wish we'd spent more time discussing chess and AI at that time. Who knows? It might have altered both our trajectories. Certainly mine.

gofai.discourse.group/t/gofai-and-games/11/3
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Actually, just read his site CV and it looks like he never completed a PhD. Reminds me of a young me, when I chose #GOFAI over school. The current AI craze was not the first. Fun times.

#Education #CitizenScience
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