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'''SD Chess''',<br/>
a chess program developed in 1977 by [[Ira Baxter]] from ''Software Dynamics'', written entirely in SD Compiler [[Basic]] on a [[6800]] microcomputer, using a [[Minimax|minimax]] [[Search Tree|tree]] lookahead scheme <ref>[[Douglas Penrod]] (ed.) ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6d6b8e Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]''. p. 9, hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]], Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]]</ref>. To simplify the [[Move Generation|move generation]], SD Chess stores the chess board in the middle of a [[Mailbox|12 by 12 field]], with the borders filled with white pawns <ref>[[Ira Baxter]] ('''1978'''). ''Software Dynamics Chess''. [[Personal Computing#2_6|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6]], pp. 91</ref>. SD Chess competed in the [[MCCT 1978|Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] of the Second West Coast Computer Faire, March 3–5, 1978. A program called ''Chess D'' by Ira Baxter was on the Stand-By list of the [[WCCC 1983]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6c8af8 The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship] (labeled 22nd ACM), [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1983_WCCC/1983-%20WCCC.062303061.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_36_C.pdf pdf] from [[Danny Kopec]]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:SD-Chess.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal]]
SD Chess at [[MCCT 1978|The Second West Coast Computer Faire]], March, 1978 <ref>Chris Morgan ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#307|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]], hosted by [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/ Modern Mechanix], Photo 4: [[Ira Baxter|Ira Baxter’s]] [[SD Chess|chess playing system]] display, which competed in the [[MCCT 1978|Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] at the Faire. The level of play was impressive, and the winning program, called [[Sargon|SARGON]], was a 16 K byte [[Z80|Z-80]] [[Assembly|assembler]] program written by a husband and wife team, [[Kathe Spracklen|Kathe]] and [[Dan Spracklen]].</ref>
=Publications=
* [[Douglas Penrod]] (ed.) ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6d6b8e Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]''. p. 9, hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]], Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]]
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''1978'''). ''Software Dynamics Chess''. [[Personal Computing#2_6|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6]], pp. 91
* Chris Morgan ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#307|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]]
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'''SD Chess''',<br/>
a chess program developed in 1977 by [[Ira Baxter]] from ''Software Dynamics'', written entirely in SD Compiler [[Basic]] on a [[6800]] microcomputer, using a [[Minimax|minimax]] [[Search Tree|tree]] lookahead scheme <ref>[[Douglas Penrod]] (ed.) ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6d6b8e Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]''. p. 9, hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]], Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]]</ref>. To simplify the [[Move Generation|move generation]], SD Chess stores the chess board in the middle of a [[Mailbox|12 by 12 field]], with the borders filled with white pawns <ref>[[Ira Baxter]] ('''1978'''). ''Software Dynamics Chess''. [[Personal Computing#2_6|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6]], pp. 91</ref>. SD Chess competed in the [[MCCT 1978|Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] of the Second West Coast Computer Faire, March 3–5, 1978. A program called ''Chess D'' by Ira Baxter was on the Stand-By list of the [[WCCC 1983]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6c8af8 The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship] (labeled 22nd ACM), [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1983_WCCC/1983-%20WCCC.062303061.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_36_C.pdf pdf] from [[Danny Kopec]]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:SD-Chess.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal]]
SD Chess at [[MCCT 1978|The Second West Coast Computer Faire]], March, 1978 <ref>Chris Morgan ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#307|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]], hosted by [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/ Modern Mechanix], Photo 4: [[Ira Baxter|Ira Baxter’s]] [[SD Chess|chess playing system]] display, which competed in the [[MCCT 1978|Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] at the Faire. The level of play was impressive, and the winning program, called [[Sargon|SARGON]], was a 16 K byte [[Z80|Z-80]] [[Assembly|assembler]] program written by a husband and wife team, [[Kathe Spracklen|Kathe]] and [[Dan Spracklen]].</ref>
=Publications=
* [[Douglas Penrod]] (ed.) ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6d6b8e Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]''. p. 9, hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]], Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]]
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''1978'''). ''Software Dynamics Chess''. [[Personal Computing#2_6|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6]], pp. 91
* Chris Morgan ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#307|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]]
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