ChessCoach's video: First recorded Chess Game played by a Digital Computer 1957

... against bio-brain Alex Bernstein, a mathematician, programmer and of course a chessplayer. Bernstein was working for International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Together with Michael de V. Roberts (IBM), Timothy Arbuckle and M.A. Belsky (IBM subsidary Service Bureau Corporation, SBC) he created the software. The hardware used was an IBM 704 (1 billion calculations per day). It took about eight minutes for the machine to come up with a move by printing the new position after any move onto a continuous form paper. Prior to this game, a program called "MADAM" by Alan Turing allegedly played games but usually lost very quickly after horrible blunders. According to "Thinking Machines" (1959), the machine was not working on full brute force mode but also performed a prescreening process. Interestingly, the machine was also able to resign. BTW, the Soviets were also working on that AI issue and used a big iron called BESM. Sources: http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/bernstein_plays_IBM_704.102645434/index.php?iid=mov-433190c26dd21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_Un3xo1qE (Alex Bernstein at the IBM 704, "Thinking Machines", Horizons of Science, Volume 1, No. 4, 1959) http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/IBM.704.dir/ Scientific American (Paper): "Computer v. Chess-Player" by A. Bernstein and Michael de V. Roberts, 1958 The short intro was captured from the clip "Thinking Machines".