Dark Horse

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Dark Horse, an early chess program by Ulf Rathsman, written in Fortran to run on a CDC 6600 mainframe computer, and later on a 36-bit one's complement UNIVAC 1100. Dark Horse played the WCCC 1977 in Toronto, the WCCC 1980 in Linz, and was runner-up at the ECCC 1979.

=See also=
 * Astronomy
 * Black Knight
 * Nebula
 * Orion
 * Search Instability

=Publications=
 * Peter Jennings (1978). Microchess 1.5 Versus Dark Horse. BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 3 » MicroChess

=External Links=

Chess program

 * Dark Horse' ICGA Tournaments
 * The chess games of Dark Horse from chessgames.com

Dark Horses elsewhere

 * Dark Horse from Wikipedia
 * Dark horse from Wikipedia
 * Dark Horse Comics from Wikipedia
 * Dark horse ZackS wins Freestyle Chess Tournament, ChessBase News, June 19, 2005
 * Sweden’s Simris Alg and the Dark Horse Factor, July 12, 2011, Algae Industry Magazine
 * Dark Horse Chess - Chess Coaching Victoria
 * KIWI CHESS: Death of the "Dark Horse" Star - Genesis Potini (1965 - 2011), August 28, 2011

=References=

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