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'''SPOC''', (SPOC, the Chess Master)<br/>
an early chess program for the [[IBM PC]] by [[Jacques Middlecoff]], written in [[8086]] [[Assembly|assembly]].
SPOC stands for '''S'''elective '''P'''runing '''O'''ptimization '''C'''hess, claiming a new algorithm for the game, and was commercially available in 1983. In his review, reviewed in an along with the [[PC MagazineChess Partner]] article by program, chess player and programmer [[Dave Whitehouse|Dave Whitehouse's]] recommendation was to wait for something better to come along <ref>[[Dave Whitehouse]] ('''1983'''). ''Biding Your Time With Computerized Chess''. [[PC Magazine]], September 1983, pp. 449-458</ref>. =Tournament Play=
SPOC played the [[ACM 1985]], searching about 300 [[Nodes per Second|nodes per second]] <ref>[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6cef27/ The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Denver Colorado, October 13-15, 1985] hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news034f1/b54/mod/ai/00000003.html ACM Computer Chess Championship] by [[Stuart Cracraft]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet Usenet], November 2, 1985</ref>, with a good result versus two Canadian programs where some [[Repetitions|repetition]] issues occurred, further losing from the third Canadian entry [[Phoenix]] and from [[CHAOS]].
=Selected Games=
<ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=60&Itemid=26&lang=en PGN Download NACCC] hosted by [[CSVN]], Spoc referred as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock Spock]</ref>
==Awit==
=Publications=
* [[Dave Whitehouse]] ('''1983'''). ''Biding Your Time With Computerized Chess''. [[PC Magazine]], September 1983, pp. 449-458» [[Chess Partner]]
=External Links=
==Chess Program==
* [https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/spoc-the-chess-master/credits SPOC the Chess Master (1983) DOS credits] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobyGames MobyGames]
* [https://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/collection/items/show/3145 SPOC The Chess Master v1.0 · Digital Game Museum Collection]
* [https://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/collection/items/show/3146 SPOC The Chess Master v2.0 · Digital Game Museum Collection]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOC SPOC (disambiguation page) from Wikipedia]
