Chaturanga

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Chaturanga, a chess program by John Poduska Jr. written in Pascal. In 1981 it searched about 1000 Nodes per second on a 68000 based Apollo workstation. It competed twice at ACM North American Computer Chess Championships, the ACM 1981 and ACM 1982.

=Etymology= The name Chaturanga was derived from the ancient Indian game which is presumed to be the common ancestor of the games of Chess, Shogi and Chinese Chess.

=Namesake=
 * Chaturanga by Stefano Malloggi

=External Links=
 * Chaturanga from Wikipedia
 * Chaturanga from chessvariants.com

=References=

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