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EdChess, (Ed Chess, Ed's Chess, Chess!) a shareware chess program for the IBM PC, released in 1992 by EdTech Associates Inc. running under DOS. The program has been developed by David Hendricks supported by John T. Bell over a period of three years, written entirely with Aztec C 4.1d . EdChess features a semigraphics board, drawing squares and pieces using IBM's special character set, and applies alpha-beta within an iterative deepening loop.

=Screenshot= EdChess emulated via browser-based DosBox of the Internet Archive

=Forum Posts=
 * Shareware chessprograms by Andreas Kyritz, rgc, December 06, 1993
 * Question on Repitition rule by Troy Johnson, rgc, November 09, 1994
 * Nostalgia drives me to install EdChess and watch it play itself by Dann Corbit, CCC, April 02, 2004
 * EdChess by Fernando Villegas, Hiarcs Forum, July 06, 2017

=External Links=
 * Ed Chess : Free Streaming : Internet Archive
 * Chess! (Ed Chess) for DOS (1992), MobyGames
 * Ed's chess (Computer file, 1992), WorldCat.org
 * The Programmer's Corner » EDCV199.DOC
 * Ed Chess gameplay (PC Game, 1994)

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