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'''Zorland Chess''',<br/>
a chess program as part of the ''Zorland Games Toolkit'' to accompany the '''Zorland''' <ref>Zorland, the company by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright Walter Bright], was later renamed to Zortech and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Mars Digital Mars], where Walter Bright created the [[D (Programming Language)|D programming language]]</ref> [[C]] compiler, released in 1986.
According to a description by [[Carey Bloodworth]]<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071221115817/http://classicchess.googlepages.com/Chess.htm Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear | Programs | Zorland Chess] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive])</ref>, Zorland Chess was developed by the British company ''Oxford Mobius'' <ref>[https://www.mobygames.com/company/oxford-mobius Oxford Mobius - MobyGames]</ref>, programmers were [[Nigel Lea]], [[Graham Barrie]], et al..
It was a [[Bitboards|bitboard]] chess program, based on the [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.x]] description by [[David Slate]] and [[Larry Atkin]] <ref>[[David Slate]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1977'''). ''Chess 4.5 - The Northwestern University Chess Program.'' [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]], reprinted (1988) in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]</ref>,
and the didcatic [[Chess 0.5]] [[Pascal]] program by Larry Atkin and [[Peter W. Frey]] published 1978/1979 in the [[Byte Magazine]].
