Author: Len Spencer
Date: 23:00:06 06/07/03
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On June 04, 2003 at 16:47:37, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On June 04, 2003 at 16:14:51, JW de Kort wrote: > >>HI, >> >>In byte magazine 1978 (i think) a series of articles was publiced concerning the >>source code of the Sargon Chess program. Can anybody tell me if these articles >>are somewhere to be found on the net? >> >>regards >>Jan Willem > >I have them on paper and it was not the real Sargon program but something called >Sargon 0.5 written in Pascal inspired from the real Sargon. > >/Peter I think what you are referring to is the old Northwestern Universtity CHESS program by Larry Atkin and David Slate. Byte magazine did publish the old 0.5 source code in Pascal, the listing was so long they had to spread it over two issues (Jan and Feb 1978 IIRC). I used to have a copy of those listings, not sure if I still do. Dan and Kathe Spracklen published the Z80 assembly source code to the original Sargon right after it blew away the field at the 1978 West Coast Computer Fair. I do have a copy of that one. It was a rather impressive program for its day considering it ran on a 2MHz 8-bit processor.
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