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'''Turbo Chess''',<br/>
an didactic chess program by [[Kaare Danielsen]] <ref>[http://www.danielsen.com/resume.shtml Resume for Kaare Danielsen]</ref>,
written in [[Pascal#TurboPascal|Turbo Pascal]] and published as source code in 1985 on disk along with the book ''Turbo GameWorks'' <ref>[[Kaare Danielsen#book|book]] ('''1985'''). ''[http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2753290M/Turbo_GameWorks Turbo GameWorks]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland Borland International]</ref> by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland Borland International]. Borland later translated the program into [[Cpp|C++]] and used it as an example program for the for the Borland C++ compiler <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/borland.public.delphi.non-technical/vhpzc1kmNF4/FJ9mxPVsAwAJ Re: origin of Chess from old Turbo Pascal Turbo GameWorks] by [[Kaare Danielsen]], [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/borland.public.delphi.non-technical borland.public.delphi.non-technical], February 29, 2016</ref>.
=Features=
<ref>Features are based on the description in the [[#book|book]]</ref>
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[0x88]] [[Vector Attacks]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Score#Grain|Score Grain]]: 1/256 Pawn
* [[Root]] [[Oracle#Pre-processing|Computed]] [[Piece-Square Tables]] considering <ref>The tables are calculated at the beginning of the search using the evaluation function described earlier, [[#book|book]] pp. 69</ref>
** [[Material]]
** [[Mobility]]
=Publications=
* <span id="book"></span>[[Kaare Danielsen]] ('''1985'''). ''[http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2753290M/Turbo_GameWorks Turbo GameWorks]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland Borland International], [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/Turbo_GameWorks_1985.pdf pdf] from [http://www.bitsavers.org/ bitsavers.org]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1986'''). ''Turbo GameWorks: Tools for Turbo Pascal''. (Review) [[ICGA Journal|ICCA Journal]], Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 88
