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[[FILE:César (13667960455).jpg|border|right|thumb|160px| Caesar <ref>The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusculum_portrait Tusculum portrait], perhaps the only surviving sculpture of Caesar made during his lifetime, around 44 BC. Image by [https://www.flickr.com/people/24266175@N00 Gautier Poupeau], April 06, 2014, Exhibition at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais Grand Palais] "[http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/i-augustus-emperor-rome Augustus I, emperor of Rome]" (March 19 - July 13, 2014), [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en CC BY 2.0], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Caesar''', <br/>
an early microcomputer chess program written by [[John Lowe]], apparently in [[Z80]] [[Assembly|assembly]]. Caesar played the [[European MCC 1981|2nd European Microcomputer Chess Championship]] in 1981, and the [[European MCC 1983|4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship]] 1983 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London], running on a [[TRS-80]] <ref> [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''Chess Tournament - 4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html December 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_December_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Brutus]]
* [[Caligula]]
* [[Various Classifications#GivenName|Given Name]]
* [[Nero]]
* [[Various Classifications#Nobility|Nobility]]
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=Horizon Effect=
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| rowspan="2" | During the last round game at the [[European MCC 1983|EMCC 1983]], [[Chess 2001]] vs. Caesar, to the delight of its operator [[David Levy]], Chess 2001 played 32.Kh2 leaving Caesar in [[Zugzwang]] with a drastic demonstration of the [[Horizon Effect|horizon effect]]. Instead of facing the inevitable and giving up the defence of the knight, Black tries to save it by sacrificing no less than four pawns: 32... g4 33.Bxg4 f5 34.Bxf5 a5 35.bxa5 b4 36.cxb4 Rg8 <ref>[[Frederic Friedel]] ('''1984'''). ''The European Microcomputer-Chess Championship - 6th PCW''. [[ICGA Journal#7_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1]]</ref>
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=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28disambiguation%29 Caesar (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28title%29 Caesar (title) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28given_name%29 Caesar (given name) from Wikipedia]
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[[FILE:César (13667960455).jpg|border|right|thumb|160px| Caesar <ref>The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusculum_portrait Tusculum portrait], perhaps the only surviving sculpture of Caesar made during his lifetime, around 44 BC. Image by [https://www.flickr.com/people/24266175@N00 Gautier Poupeau], April 06, 2014, Exhibition at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais Grand Palais] "[http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/i-augustus-emperor-rome Augustus I, emperor of Rome]" (March 19 - July 13, 2014), [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en CC BY 2.0], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Caesar''', <br/>
an early microcomputer chess program written by [[John Lowe]], apparently in [[Z80]] [[Assembly|assembly]]. Caesar played the [[European MCC 1981|2nd European Microcomputer Chess Championship]] in 1981, and the [[European MCC 1983|4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship]] 1983 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London], running on a [[TRS-80]] <ref> [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''Chess Tournament - 4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html December 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_December_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Brutus]]
* [[Caligula]]
* [[Various Classifications#GivenName|Given Name]]
* [[Nero]]
* [[Various Classifications#Nobility|Nobility]]
<span id="HorizonEffect"></span>
=Horizon Effect=
{|
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| rowspan="2" | During the last round game at the [[European MCC 1983|EMCC 1983]], [[Chess 2001]] vs. Caesar, to the delight of its operator [[David Levy]], Chess 2001 played 32.Kh2 leaving Caesar in [[Zugzwang]] with a drastic demonstration of the [[Horizon Effect|horizon effect]]. Instead of facing the inevitable and giving up the defence of the knight, Black tries to save it by sacrificing no less than four pawns: 32... g4 33.Bxg4 f5 34.Bxf5 a5 35.bxa5 b4 36.cxb4 Rg8 <ref>[[Frederic Friedel]] ('''1984'''). ''The European Microcomputer-Chess Championship - 6th PCW''. [[ICGA Journal#7_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1]]</ref>
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=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28disambiguation%29 Caesar (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28title%29 Caesar (title) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28given_name%29 Caesar (given name) from Wikipedia]
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