_A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090 Computer_ also known as the Kotok-
McCarthy-Program after its creators is a chess game that is credited to be the
first that would play a convincing game. It was being worked on at MIT between
1959 and 1962 and based on the 1957 Berstein program, but with added routines
for alpha-beta pruning. It was later further developed at Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford and lost an epic 9 month match against a
Russian M-2 computer in 1966 by 3-1 despite running on faster hardware.
