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Byte Magazine, (BYTE)
a monthly microcomputer periodical, published from September 1975 until July 1998 . In spring of 1979, owner/publisher BYTE Publications, Inc., Virginia Williamson sold the magazine to McGraw-Hill. The readership of Byte and advertising revenue were declining when McGraw-Hill sold the magazine to CMP Media, who ceased publication with the July 1998 issue. Specially Volume 3, 1978 has various computer chess related articles. Most BYTE Magazines are available in the Internet Archive .

Selected Authors

• Larry Atkin
• Peter W. Frey
• Steve Ciarcia
• Tom R. Halfhill
• Peter Jennings
• Peter B. Maggs
• Ward Douglas Maurer
• Dan Spracklen
• Kathe Spracklen
• Norman Whaland
• James M. Williams

Chess Programs

• Boris
• Chess
• Chess 0.5
• Dark Horse
• Deep Blue
• El Ajedrecista
• Kaissa
• MicroChess
• Sargon

Selected Articles

Volume 3 1978

Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1978

Vol. 3, No. 1

• Peter Jennings (1978). The Second World Computer Chess Championships - Where KAISSA Founders on a Bug and CHESS 4.6 Conquers All. » WCCC 1977, Kaissa, Chess

Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1978

• Peter Jennings (1978). Microchess 1.5 Versus Dark Horse. » MicroChess, Dark Horse

Vol. 3, No. 7, July, 1978

• Chris Morgan (1978). The Second West Coast Computer Faire.  » MCCT 1978, Sargon, SD Chess

Vol. 3, No. 9, September 1978

• James M. Williams (1978). Antique Mechanical Computers, Part 3: The Torres Chess Automation. » El Ajedrecista

Vol. 3, No. 10, October 1978

Vol. 3, No. 10

• Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen (1978). First Steps in Computer Chess Programming. pdf from The Computer History Museum
• Norman Whaland (1978). A Computer Chess Tutorial. Reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
• Peter W. Frey, Larry Atkin (1978). Creating a Chess Player. An Essay on Human and Computer Chess Skill, pp. 182-191. pdf from The Computer History Museum
• What's New? Computer chess; Microchess 1.5; Boris, pp. 193, pdf from The Computer History Museum » MicroChess, Boris

Vol. 3, No. 11, November 1978

• Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen (1978). An Exchange Evaluator for Computer Chess.  » SEE, SOMA
• Peter W. Frey, Larry Atkin (1978). Creating a Chess Player, Part 2: Chess 0.5. » Chess 0.5

Vol. 3, No. 12, December 1978

• Peter W. Frey, Larry Atkin (1978). Creating a Chess Player, Part 3: Chess 0.5 (continued).
• J. R. Douglas (1978). Chess 4.7 Versus David Levy.

Volume 4 1979

Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 1979

• Peter W. Frey, Larry Atkin (1979). Creating a Chess-Player, Part 4: Thoughts on Strategy. » Pawn Endgame, Corresponding Squares

Vol. 4, No. 11, November 1979

Vol. 4, No. 11

• Steve Ciarcia (1979). The Intel 8086.  » 8086
• Peter B. Maggs (1979). Programming Strategies in the Game of Reversi. » Othello
• Ward Douglas Maurer (1979). Alpha-Beta Pruning. » Alpha-Beta

Volume 11 1986

Vol. 11, No. 12, November 1986

• Peter W. Frey (1986). A Bit-Mapped Classifier.

Volume 22 1997

Vol. 22, No. 7, July 1997

• Tom R. Halfhill (1997). Searching for Deep Blue. pdf » Deep Blue

External Links

• Byte Magazine from Wikipedia
• BYTE Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming hosted by the Internet Archive
• BYTE Magazine - Classic Computing - AtariAge Forums
• FTP Directory: ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/
• Index of /~buzz/byte/pdf/

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