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SD Chess, 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 tree lookahead scheme. To simplify the move generation, SD Chess stores the chess board in the middle of a 12 by 12 field, with the borders filled with white pawns. SD Chess competed in the 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 New York.

=Photos= SD Chess at The Second West Coast Computer Faire, March, 1978

=Publications=
 * Douglas Penrod (ed.) (1977). 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, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 91
 * Chris Morgan (1978). The Second West Coast Computer Faire. BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7

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