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=History=
Philidor was initially written by Broughton in [[Z80]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6ce737 The Twelfth ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1981_ACM_NACCC/1981_ACM_NACCC.sm.062303017.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
</ref> and subsequent versions in [[8086]] [[Assembly|assembly]] to either run on an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1 Osborne] and later on an [[IBM PC]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6c8af8 The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship] (labeled 22nd ACM), [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1983_WCCC/1983-%20WCCC.062303061.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_36_C.pdf pdf] from [[Danny Kopec]]</ref>, in 1983 commercialized as [[Parker Chess]]. Taylor was responsible to port it to [[6502]] assembly for the SciSys [[Chess Champion Mark V]] branch. Parker Chess and Mark V already applied the first version of [[Depth#FractionalPlies|fractional ply deepening ]] with [[Extensions|extensions]] and [[Reductions|reductions]], aka [[SEX Algorithm|SX Algorithm]], which was somehow an early implementation of what was later called [[Late Move Reductions]] <ref>[[David Levy]], [[David Broughton]], and [[Mark Taylor]] ('''1989'''). ''The [[SEX Algorithm]] in Computer Chess''. [[ICGA Journal#12_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1]]</ref>. Philidor played the [[ACM 1981]] and [[ACM 1982]], the [[European MCC 1981]] and [[European MCC 1982]], and the [[WMCCC 1981]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travem%C3%BCnde Travemünde] and the [[WCCC 1983]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=417 Philidor's ICGA Tournaments]</ref>.
=Photos & Games=
=Publications=
* [[David Levy]], [[Kevin O’Connell]] ('''1981'''). ''The Best Chess Computer Yet?'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHESS_magazine Chess], July 1981 <ref>''The Best Chess Computer Yet?'' [http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/5856426830/in/photostream part 1], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/5855873337/in/photostream part 2], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/5855873365/in/photostream part 3] by [[Steve Blincoe|Chewbanta]]</ref>
* [[David Levy]], [[David Broughton]], [[Mark Taylor]] ('''1989'''). ''The SEX Algorithm in Computer Chess''. [[ICGA Journal#12_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1]]
 
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9941 Philidor/Parker Chess for PC (1983)] by Ben Redic Fy Fazan, [[Computer Chess Forums|HIARCS Forum]], March 29, 2020
* [https://www.schachcomputer.info/forum/showthread.php?t=6209 David Broughtons Philidor DOS Schachprogramm] by [[Thorsten Czub|mclane]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Schachcomputer.info Community]], June 09, 2020 (German)
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