Sargon (chess program)
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Sargon (also spelled SARGON ) is a chess program by the American developer couple Dan and Kathe Spracklen from the late 1970s and 1980s, which was then considered a benchmark for playing strength and comfort. The namesake is Sargon of Akkad (around 2300 BC ), an ancient ruler in Mesopotamia .
history
Inspired by the BASIC - Listing of an unfinished chess program , which the couple Spracklen fell by 1977 in the hands, they decided to develop such a program itself. They opted for the much more efficient assembler and used the 8-bit Z80 microprocessor from the American company Zilog , which had only recently appeared on the market . The first version was published in 1978 and in the same year won the computer chess tournament at the West Coast Computer Faire, which took place from March 3rd to 5th in San José , California .
Subsequently appeared, mostly numbered with Roman numerals (II, III, IV and V), other versions (exception Ver.2.5), most recently in 1991 version V.
literature
- SARGON III - A microcomputer program from Spracklen in Computer Chess and Games (CSS), No. 3, 1984, pp. 12-14
- Kathe and Dan Spracklen: Sargon - A Computer Chess Program , Hayden Book Company, 1978, ISBN 0-8104-5155-7
- Kathe and Dan Spracklen: First Steps in Computer Chess Programming (English) in BYTE , Vol. 3, No. 10, October 1978
Web links
- Sargon series at MobyGames (English)
- Entry in the computer game database UVlist.net
- Sargon on Chess Programming Wiki , accessed November 21, 2017
- SARGON TDL Z80 assembler listing for CP / M and Wavemate Jupiter III
Individual evidence
- ↑ SARGON III - A microcomputer program from Spracklen in Computerschach und Spiele (CSS), No. 3, 1984, p. 12
- ↑ Sargon series at MobyGames (English), accessed on November 21, 2017