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  1. Oct 2015
    1. He began writing a program to make it play draughts (checkers), inspired by a June 1950 article in Penguin Science News.

      It's not insignificant that Strachey began by creating a game before his experiences with combinatory literature. I think that the poetics of the game are an intrinsic part of digital literature. I think it's useful to use Espen Aarseths' terminology of "user" in place of "reader" in order for one to talk about "games" and "books" in the same breath.