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There were a few didactic chess programs written in Basic, most notably a program by [[Dieter Steinwender]] published 1984 in [[Computerschach und Spiele]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=286508 qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender] by [[Michael Byrne|Mike Byrne]], [[CCC]], February 23, 2003</ref> , [[Demoschach]] by [[Hans-Joachim Kraas]] and [[Günther Schrüfer]] <ref>[http://www.rainerbartel.de/ Rainer Bartel], [[Hans-Joachim Kraas]], [[Günther Schrüfer]] ('''1985'''). ''[https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/Das_grosse_Computerschachbuch Das große Computerschachbuch]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Becker Data Becker] (German)</ref> , and [[Minimax (program)|Minimax]] by [[Chrilly Donninger]] and [[Dieter Steinwender]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=286619 Re: Another qBASIC Chess program -Dieter Steinwender (in english+comment] by Tony Worsman, [[CCC]], February 24, 2003</ref>, which was later converted to [[WinBoard]] by [[Thomas McBurney]] <ref>[http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Etommyinoz/minimax.html Minimax in BASIC] converted to [[WinBoard]] by [[Thomas McBurney]]</ref> .
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There were a few didactic chess programs written in Basic, most notably a program by [[Dieter Steinwender]] published 1984 in [[Computerschach und Spiele]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=286508 qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender] by [[Michael Byrne|Mike Byrne]], [[CCC]], February 23, 2003</ref> , [[Demoschach]] by [[Hans-Joachim Kraas]] and [[Günther Schrüfer]] <ref>[http://www.rainerbartel.de/ Rainer Bartel], [[Hans-Joachim Kraas]], [[Günther Schrüfer]] ('''1985'''). ''[https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/Das_grosse_Computerschachbuch Das große Computerschachbuch]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Becker Data Becker] (German)</ref> , and [[Minimax (program)|Minimax]] by [[Chrilly Donninger]] and [[Dieter Steinwender]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=286619 Re: Another qBASIC Chess program -Dieter Steinwender (in english+comment] by Tony Worsman, [[CCC]], February 24, 2003</ref>, which was later converted to [[WinBoard]] by [[Thomas McBurney]] <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180222163823/http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/minimax.html Minimax in BASIC] by [[Thomas McBurney]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine])</ref>.
 
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* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=417664 Old chess program in BASIC (long post)] by [[Walter Faxon]], [[CCC]], March 20, 2005
 
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=417664 Old chess program in BASIC (long post)] by [[Walter Faxon]], [[CCC]], March 20, 2005
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26783 GUI in Visual Basic] by [[Edmund Moshammer]], [[CCC]], February 28, 2009 » [[GUI]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26783 GUI in Visual Basic] by [[Edmund Moshammer]], [[CCC]], February 28, 2009 » [[GUI]]
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=74011&p=844518 Call an engine from BASIC?!] by [[Jens Bæk Nielsen]], [[CCC]], May 24, 2020
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: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=74011&start=12 Re: Call an engine from BASIC?!] by [[Tony Mokonen]], [[CCC]], May 27, 2020
  
 
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Home * Programming * Languages * BASIC

BASIC,
an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a family of high-level programming languages, initially designed in 1963/1964 by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College [1] .

While early dialects worked in conjunction with a teletype command line interpreter, which could immediately interprete and print expressions, or run a program which lines were entered (or re-loaded from punch tape) with leading line numbers, later dialects were more sophisticated with respect to program structure, recursion, object-oriented and event-driven programming paradigms, and compiled executables.

Basic Engines

There were a few didactic chess programs written in Basic, most notably a program by Dieter Steinwender published 1984 in Computerschach und Spiele [2] , Demoschach by Hans-Joachim Kraas and Günther Schrüfer [3] , and Minimax by Chrilly Donninger and Dieter Steinwender [4], which was later converted to WinBoard by Thomas McBurney [5].

Dialects

GFA BASIC

GFA BASIC is a BASIC variant originally developed for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST and then later ported to Microsoft Windows. It looks a bit like Pascal.

Visual Basic

Visual Basic is a event-driven programming language with integrated development environment by from Microsoft for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model, first released in 1991.

Publications

Forum Posts

Re: Another qBASIC Chess program -Dieter Steinwender (in english+comment by Tony Worsman, CCC, February 24, 2003
Re: Call an engine from BASIC?! by Tony Mokonen, CCC, May 27, 2020

External Links

Wikipedia

HP time-shared BASIC
VBScript
Visual Basic .NET
Visual Basic for Applications

HIARCS

References

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