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Zorland Chess,
a chess program as part of the Zorland Games Toolkit to accompany the Zorland [1] C compiler, released in 1986.
According to a description by Carey Bloodworth [2], Zorland Chess was developed by the British company Oxford Mobius [3], programmers were Nigel Lea, Graham Barrie, et al..
It was a bitboard chess program, based on the Chess 4.x description by David Slate and Larry Atkin [4],
and the didcatic Chess 0.5 Pascal program by Larry Atkin and Peter W. Frey published 1978/1979 in the Byte Magazine.
The program featured CGA graphics and was able to ponder.
See also
Forum Posts
- Re: Computer chess books by Stephen L. Mitchell, rgcc, February 07, 1997
- Re: small chess program source by PubPost, rgcc, November 11, 2001
- Re: source available---- by Carey, CCC, September 11, 2008
- Re: GetClub Easy Level now as good as Rybka at 5 sec / move by Why_am_I_Here, rgcc, May 14, 2009
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References
- ↑ Zorland, the company by Walter Bright, was later renamed to Zortech and Digital Mars, where Walter Bright created the D programming language
- ↑ Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear | Programs | Zorland Chess by Carey (Internet Archive)
- ↑ Oxford Mobius - MobyGames
- ↑ David Slate, Larry Atkin (1977). Chess 4.5 - The Northwestern University Chess Program. Chess Skill in Man and Machine, reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium