Merlin (GB)
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Merlin [1]
Merlin,
a chess program by Jeff Rollason whose developed started in 1976, initially written in Fortran for mainframe computers. Merlin already focused on a Swapping Off Material Analyzer (SOMA) approach of the whole board, which was later refined in Rollason's Shogi program Shotest [2] and his later chess program Treebeard [3].
The micro-processor program Merlin X, basically a Z80 Assembly port to run on a Nascom 2, played the 4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship 1983 in London with 4 out of 9.
See also
Namesakes
- Merlin from Vienna University of Technology
- Merlin, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine by Balázs Jákó
External Links
- Merlin from Wikipedia
- List of Arthurian characters from Wikipedia
- Prophetiae Merlini from Wikipedia
- Myrddin & Merlin: A Guide to the Early Evolution of the Merlin Legend from Arthuriana by Thomas Green
- The Coming of the King from Wikipedia
- Merlin (bird) from Wikipedia
- Merlin (comics) from Wikipedia
- Merlin the Magician (comics) from Wikipedia
- Merlin (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- If - Merlin the Magic Man, 1975, YouTube Video [4]
References
- ↑ Merlin, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ Jeff Rollason (2000). SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching. CG 2000
- ↑ Jeff Rollason, Didzis Cirulis (2005). Treebeard - A new way to do Chess. AI Factory, Summer 2005
- ↑ Merlin (TV series) from Wikipedia
