1952
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1951 < > 1957 [edit | edit source]
The following is a list of events that took place in the gaming world in the year 1952.
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- Christopher Strachey completes his draughts program with the CRT display.
- Alexander S. Douglas begins and completes development on OXO for the EDSAC
- Having made his point, A S. Douglas discards OXO.
- Alan Turing tests the code of Turochamp on the newer computers, but is unable to get the program to run.
- Arthur Samuel, inspired by Christopher Strachey's draughts program, develops his own checkers game for the IBM 701