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shortly after leaving graduate school in New York. It was the first software to ever sell over 10,000 copies. The code was sold on paper and users had to manually enter the program using a keyboard.
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Szewczyk, Roman; Kaštelan, Ivan; Temerinac, Miodrag; Barak, Moshe; Sruk, Vlado (2016-01-19).
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in 1972 and his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in finance and marketing from
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The Commodore ChessMate, developed by Peter R. Jennings in 1977.
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January 1978: "The Second World Computer Chess Championships".
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Peter R Jennings
Bedford
England
United Kingdom
Canadian
McMaster University
VisiCorp
physicist
software developer
computer chess programmer
entrepreneur
MicroChess
microcomputer
Bedford
England
Ontario
Canada
SUNY
Stony Brook University
McMaster University
Apple II
TRS-80
Commodore PET
Atari 8-bit computers
Commodore
The Commodore ChessMate, developed by Peter R Jennings in 1977.
Dan Fylstra
VisiCorp
VisiCalc
"6502.org: Source: MicroChess"

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