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[[FILE:BYTE_281-front.gif|border|right|thumb|link=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11| BYTE <ref>[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11 Byte Magazine Volume 04 Number 11 - Fun and Games : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive]</ref> ]]
'''Byte Magazine''', (BYTE)<br/>
a monthly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer microcomputer] periodical, published from September 1975 until July 1998 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_%28magazine%29 Byte Magazine from Wikipedia]</ref>. In spring of 1979, owner/publisher BYTE Publications, Inc., Virginia Williamson sold the magazine to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill]. The readership of Byte and advertising revenue were declining when McGraw-Hill sold the magazine to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBM_plc CMP Media], who ceased publication with the July 1998 issue. Specially Volume 3, 1978 has various computer chess related articles. Most BYTE Magazines are available in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive] <ref>[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine BYTE Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive]</ref>.
=Selected Authors=
* [[Larry Atkin]]
* [[Peter W. Frey]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia Steve Ciarcia]
* [[Peter Jennings]]
* [[Peter B. Maggs]]
* [[Ward Douglas Maurer]]
* [[Dan Spracklen]]
* [[Kathe Spracklen]]
* [[Norman Whaland]]
* [http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/author/1504.en.html James M. Williams]
=Chess Programs=
* [[Boris]]
* [[Chess (Program)|Chess]]
* [[Chess 0.5]]
* [[Dark Horse]]
* [[El Ajedrecista]]
* [[Kaissa]]
* [[MicroChess]]
* [[Sargon]]
=Selected Articles=
<span id="BYTE301"></span>
==Volume 3 1978==
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-01 Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1978]===
[[FILE:BYTE_246-front.gif|border|right|thumb|link=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-01|Vol. 3, No. 1]]
* [[Peter Jennings]] ('''1978'''). ''[http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-01/1978_01_BYTE_03-01_The_Brains_of_Men_and_Machines#page/n107/mode/2up The Second World Computer Chess Championships - Where KAISSA Founders on a Bug and CHESS 4.6 Conquers All]''. » [[WCCC 1977]], [[Kaissa]], [[Chess (Program)|Chess]]
<span id="BYTE303"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-03 Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1978]===
* [[Peter Jennings]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-03/1978_03_BYTE_03-03_Computer_Music_Systems#page/n167/mode/2up Microchess 1.5 Versus Dark Horse]''. » [[MicroChess]], [[Dark Horse]]
<span id="BYTE307"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-07 Vol. 3, No. 7, July, 1978]===
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-BYTE-Book-Computer-Music/dp/0070430977 Chris Morgan] ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. <ref>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> » [[MCCT 1978]], [[Sargon]], [[SD Chess]]
<span id="BYTE309"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-09 Vol. 3, No. 9, September 1978]===
* [http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/author/1504.en.html James M. Williams] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-09/1978_09_BYTE_03-09_Graphic_Manipulations#page/n83/mode/2up Antique Mechanical Computers, Part 3: The Torres Chess Automation]''. » [[El Ajedrecista]]
<span id="BYTE310"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-10 Vol. 3, No. 10, October 1978]===
[[FILE:223-front.gif|border|right|thumb|link=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-10|Vol. 3, No. 10]]
* [[Dan Spracklen]], [[Kathe Spracklen]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-10/1978_10_BYTE_03-10_Chess_for_the_Microcomputer#page/n87/mode/2up First Steps in Computer Chess Programming]''. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-4.First_Steps.Byte_Magazine/First_Steps_in_Computer_Chess_Programing.Spracklen-Dan_Kathe.Byte_Magazine.Oct-1978.062303035.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[Norman Whaland]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-10/1978_10_BYTE_03-10_Chess_for_the_Microcomputer#page/n167/mode/2up A Computer Chess Tutorial]''. Reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]
* [[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-10/1978_10_BYTE_03-10_Chess_for_the_Microcomputer#page/n181/mode/2up Creating a Chess Player].'' An Essay on Human and Computer Chess Skill, pp. 182-191. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-3.Creating_A_Chess_Player/Creating_A_Chess_Player.Frey_Atkin.Byte_Magazine.Oct-1978.062303029.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-10/1978_10_BYTE_03-10_Chess_for_the_Microcomputer#page/n191/mode/2up What's New? Computer chess; Microchess 1.5; Boris]'', pp. 193, [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-1%20and%204-2.Whats_New_Byte_Magazine/Whats_New.Microchess_1-5.Boris.Byte_Magazine.Oct-1978.062303032.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]] » [[MicroChess]], [[Boris]]
<span id="BYTE311"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-11 Vol. 3, No. 11, November 1978]===
* [[Dan Spracklen]], [[Kathe Spracklen]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-11/1978_11_BYTE_03-11_The_Sky_is_the_Limit#page/n17/mode/2up An Exchange Evaluator for Computer Chess]''. » [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]], [[SOMA]]
* [[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-11/1978_11_BYTE_03-11_The_Sky_is_the_Limit#page/n163/mode/2up Creating a Chess Player, Part 2: Chess 0.5]''. » [[Chess 0.5]]
<span id="BYTE312"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-12 Vol. 3, No. 12, December 1978]===
* [[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-12/1978_12_BYTE_03-12_Life#page/n141/mode/2up Creating a Chess Player, Part 3: Chess 0.5 (continued)]''.
* J. R. Douglas ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-12/1978_12_BYTE_03-12_Life#page/n85/mode/2up Chess 4.7 Versus David Levy]''.
<span id="BYTE401"></span>
==Volume 4 1979==
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-01 Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 1979]===
* [[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-01/1979_01_BYTE_04-01_Life_Algorithms#page/n127/mode/2up Creating a Chess-Player, Part 4: Thoughts on Strategy]''. » [[Pawn Endgame]], [[Corresponding Squares]]
<span id="BYTE411"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11 Vol. 4, No. 11, November 1979]===
[[FILE:BYTE_281-front.gif|border|right|thumb|link=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11|Vol. 4, No. 11]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia Steve Ciarcia] ('''1979'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-11/1979_11_BYTE_04-11_Fun_and_Games#page/n15/mode/2up The Intel 8086]''. » [[8086]]
* [[Peter B. Maggs]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-11/1979_11_BYTE_04-11_Fun_and_Games#page/n67/mode/2up Programming Strategies in the Game of Reversi]''. » [[Othello]]
* [[Ward Douglas Maurer]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-11/1979_11_BYTE_04-11_Fun_and_Games#page/n85/mode/2up Alpha-Beta Pruning]''. » [[Alpha-Beta]]
<span id="BYTE1112"></span>
==Volume 11 1986==
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-11 Vol. 11, No. 12, November 1986]===
* [[Peter W. Frey]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-11/1986_11_BYTE_11-12_Knowledge_Representation#page/n175/mode/2up A Bit-Mapped Classifier]''.
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_%28magazine%29 Byte Magazine from Wikipedia]
* [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine BYTE Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming] hosted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive]
* [http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/167235-byte-magazine/ BYTE Magazine - Classic Computing - AtariAge Forums]
* [ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/ FTP Directory: ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/]
* [http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/byte/pdf/ Index of /~buzz/byte/pdf/]
=References=
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'''[[Periodical|Up one Level]]'''
[[FILE:BYTE_281-front.gif|border|right|thumb|link=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11| BYTE <ref>[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11 Byte Magazine Volume 04 Number 11 - Fun and Games : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive]</ref> ]]
'''Byte Magazine''', (BYTE)<br/>
a monthly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer microcomputer] periodical, published from September 1975 until July 1998 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_%28magazine%29 Byte Magazine from Wikipedia]</ref>. In spring of 1979, owner/publisher BYTE Publications, Inc., Virginia Williamson sold the magazine to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill]. The readership of Byte and advertising revenue were declining when McGraw-Hill sold the magazine to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBM_plc CMP Media], who ceased publication with the July 1998 issue. Specially Volume 3, 1978 has various computer chess related articles. Most BYTE Magazines are available in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive] <ref>[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine BYTE Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive]</ref>.
=Selected Authors=
* [[Larry Atkin]]
* [[Peter W. Frey]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia Steve Ciarcia]
* [[Peter Jennings]]
* [[Peter B. Maggs]]
* [[Ward Douglas Maurer]]
* [[Dan Spracklen]]
* [[Kathe Spracklen]]
* [[Norman Whaland]]
* [http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/author/1504.en.html James M. Williams]
=Chess Programs=
* [[Boris]]
* [[Chess (Program)|Chess]]
* [[Chess 0.5]]
* [[Dark Horse]]
* [[El Ajedrecista]]
* [[Kaissa]]
* [[MicroChess]]
* [[Sargon]]
=Selected Articles=
<span id="BYTE301"></span>
==Volume 3 1978==
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-01 Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1978]===
[[FILE:BYTE_246-front.gif|border|right|thumb|link=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-01|Vol. 3, No. 1]]
* [[Peter Jennings]] ('''1978'''). ''[http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-01/1978_01_BYTE_03-01_The_Brains_of_Men_and_Machines#page/n107/mode/2up The Second World Computer Chess Championships - Where KAISSA Founders on a Bug and CHESS 4.6 Conquers All]''. » [[WCCC 1977]], [[Kaissa]], [[Chess (Program)|Chess]]
<span id="BYTE303"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-03 Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1978]===
* [[Peter Jennings]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-03/1978_03_BYTE_03-03_Computer_Music_Systems#page/n167/mode/2up Microchess 1.5 Versus Dark Horse]''. » [[MicroChess]], [[Dark Horse]]
<span id="BYTE307"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-07 Vol. 3, No. 7, July, 1978]===
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-BYTE-Book-Computer-Music/dp/0070430977 Chris Morgan] ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. <ref>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> » [[MCCT 1978]], [[Sargon]], [[SD Chess]]
<span id="BYTE309"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-09 Vol. 3, No. 9, September 1978]===
* [http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/author/1504.en.html James M. Williams] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-09/1978_09_BYTE_03-09_Graphic_Manipulations#page/n83/mode/2up Antique Mechanical Computers, Part 3: The Torres Chess Automation]''. » [[El Ajedrecista]]
<span id="BYTE310"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-10 Vol. 3, No. 10, October 1978]===
[[FILE:223-front.gif|border|right|thumb|link=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-10|Vol. 3, No. 10]]
* [[Dan Spracklen]], [[Kathe Spracklen]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-10/1978_10_BYTE_03-10_Chess_for_the_Microcomputer#page/n87/mode/2up First Steps in Computer Chess Programming]''. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-4.First_Steps.Byte_Magazine/First_Steps_in_Computer_Chess_Programing.Spracklen-Dan_Kathe.Byte_Magazine.Oct-1978.062303035.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[Norman Whaland]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-10/1978_10_BYTE_03-10_Chess_for_the_Microcomputer#page/n167/mode/2up A Computer Chess Tutorial]''. Reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]
* [[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-10/1978_10_BYTE_03-10_Chess_for_the_Microcomputer#page/n181/mode/2up Creating a Chess Player].'' An Essay on Human and Computer Chess Skill, pp. 182-191. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-3.Creating_A_Chess_Player/Creating_A_Chess_Player.Frey_Atkin.Byte_Magazine.Oct-1978.062303029.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-10/1978_10_BYTE_03-10_Chess_for_the_Microcomputer#page/n191/mode/2up What's New? Computer chess; Microchess 1.5; Boris]'', pp. 193, [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-1%20and%204-2.Whats_New_Byte_Magazine/Whats_New.Microchess_1-5.Boris.Byte_Magazine.Oct-1978.062303032.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]] » [[MicroChess]], [[Boris]]
<span id="BYTE311"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-11 Vol. 3, No. 11, November 1978]===
* [[Dan Spracklen]], [[Kathe Spracklen]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-11/1978_11_BYTE_03-11_The_Sky_is_the_Limit#page/n17/mode/2up An Exchange Evaluator for Computer Chess]''. » [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]], [[SOMA]]
* [[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-11/1978_11_BYTE_03-11_The_Sky_is_the_Limit#page/n163/mode/2up Creating a Chess Player, Part 2: Chess 0.5]''. » [[Chess 0.5]]
<span id="BYTE312"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-12 Vol. 3, No. 12, December 1978]===
* [[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-12/1978_12_BYTE_03-12_Life#page/n141/mode/2up Creating a Chess Player, Part 3: Chess 0.5 (continued)]''.
* J. R. Douglas ('''1978'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-12/1978_12_BYTE_03-12_Life#page/n85/mode/2up Chess 4.7 Versus David Levy]''.
<span id="BYTE401"></span>
==Volume 4 1979==
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-01 Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 1979]===
* [[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-01/1979_01_BYTE_04-01_Life_Algorithms#page/n127/mode/2up Creating a Chess-Player, Part 4: Thoughts on Strategy]''. » [[Pawn Endgame]], [[Corresponding Squares]]
<span id="BYTE411"></span>
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11 Vol. 4, No. 11, November 1979]===
[[FILE:BYTE_281-front.gif|border|right|thumb|link=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11|Vol. 4, No. 11]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia Steve Ciarcia] ('''1979'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-11/1979_11_BYTE_04-11_Fun_and_Games#page/n15/mode/2up The Intel 8086]''. » [[8086]]
* [[Peter B. Maggs]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-11/1979_11_BYTE_04-11_Fun_and_Games#page/n67/mode/2up Programming Strategies in the Game of Reversi]''. » [[Othello]]
* [[Ward Douglas Maurer]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-11/1979_11_BYTE_04-11_Fun_and_Games#page/n85/mode/2up Alpha-Beta Pruning]''. » [[Alpha-Beta]]
<span id="BYTE1112"></span>
==Volume 11 1986==
===[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-11 Vol. 11, No. 12, November 1986]===
* [[Peter W. Frey]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-11/1986_11_BYTE_11-12_Knowledge_Representation#page/n175/mode/2up A Bit-Mapped Classifier]''.
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_%28magazine%29 Byte Magazine from Wikipedia]
* [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine BYTE Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming] hosted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive]
* [http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/167235-byte-magazine/ BYTE Magazine - Classic Computing - AtariAge Forums]
* [ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/ FTP Directory: ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/]
* [http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/byte/pdf/ Index of /~buzz/byte/pdf/]
=References=
<references />
'''[[Periodical|Up one Level]]'''
