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title: Turbo Chess
Turbo Gameworks [1] Turbo Chess,
an didactic chess program by Kaare Danielsen [2], written in Turbo Pascal and published as source code in 1985 on disk along with the book Turbo GameWorks by Borland International. Borland later translated the program into C++ and used it as an example program for the for the Borland C++ compiler [3].
Board Representation
Search
- PV-Move
- Capture of Last Moved Piece
- Killer Moves
- Remaining Captures in MVV/LVA Order
- Promotions
- Castling
- Quiet Moves
- En passant
Evaluation
- Score Grain: 1/256 of a pawn unit
- Pre-processed Piece-Square Tables considering [5]
- Draw Evaluation
Namesake
- Turbo Chess by Chris A. Thornton [6]
See also
Publications
- Kaare Danielsen (1985). Turbo GameWorks. Borland International, pdf from bitsavers.org
- Don Beal (1986). Turbo GameWorks: Tools for Turbo Pascal. (Review) ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 88
Forum Posts
- origin of Chess from old Turbo Pascal Turbo GameWorks by Douglas Houston, borland.public.delphi.non-technical, June 4, 2000
Re: origin of Chess from old Turbo Pascal Turbo GameWorks by Kaare Danielsen, borland.public.delphi.non-technical, February 29, 2016
- Some correspondence with Kaare Danielsen... by Fernando, Hiarcs Forum, February 17, 2017 ยป KChess
External Links
Turbo (gastropod) from Wikipedia
References
- โ Kaare Danielsen (1985). Turbo GameWorks. Borland International
- โ Resume for Kaare Danielsen
- โ Re: origin of Chess from old Turbo Pascal Turbo GameWorks by Kaare Danielsen, borland.public.delphi.non-technical, February 29, 2016
- โ Features are based on the description in the book
- โ The tables are calculated at the beginning of the search using the evaluation function described earlier, book pp. 69
- โ Turbo Chess - World of Spectrum