Publication Archive

The development of the chess computer as a consumer product of increasing chess strength, features and sophistication largely predates the internet. Whilst there is now a wealth of information about chess computers on the internet there is not much contemporary published source material in English from that important formative period from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s.

Here I intend to build an archive of articles and other written material about chess computers and computer chess from that period. Hopefully these webpages will grow to include most of what is available. Articles will mainly be from defunct magazines such as Personal Computer World, Creative Computing, Your Computer and Byte which covered the subject until the likes of Selective Search appeared. Some other countries, such as Sweden (Ply) and West Germany (eg Computer Schach & Spiele), were quicker off the mark with specialist publications. Many thanks to Mark Uniacke for providing some of these articles.

To access the articles, which are in pdf format, click on the pictures. NEW articles are those added towards the end of 2015. There are a further seven pages covering :-


	1980/81


	1982


	Creative Computing January/February 1976 Author - Monty Newborn David Levy Simultaneous versus 12 computers ACM 1975


	1983


	1984


	1985/86


	Byte January 1978 Author - Peter Jennings 2nd World Computer Chess Championships, Toronto, August 1977 NEW


			Computer Chess Digest



	Byte March 1978 Author - Monty Newborn Microchess 1.5 v Dark Horse


		Computer Chess Reports



	Creative Computing May 1978 Author - David H. Ahl Microchess - Can a computer win. NEW


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	Byte September 1978 Author - Dr James Williams Torres Chess Automaton




		Byte October 1978 Author - Norman Whaland Computer Chess Tutorial




	Byte October 1978 Author - Dan & Kathe Spracklen Chess Programming




	Byte November 1978 Author - Dan & Kathe Spracklen Chess Programming


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		Byte October 1978 Author - Peter Frey & Larry Atkin Creating A Chess Program - Part 1




	Byte November 1978 Author - Peter Frey & Larry Atkin Creating A Chess Program - Part 2




	Byte December 1978 Author - Peter Frey & Larry Atkin Creating A Chess Program - Part 3




	Byte January 1979 Author - Peter Frey & Larry Atkin Creating A Chess Program - Part 4


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	Personal Computer World November 1978 Author - David Levy Report of 1st European Microcomputer Chess Championship, London, September 1978




	Byte December 1978 Author - John R Douglas Chess 4.7 v David Levy




	Byte January 1979 Author - John R Douglas Walter Browne v Chess 4.6




	Creative Computing January 1979 Author - Theodore Ehara Chess 4.6


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	Elektor January 1979 Author - David Levy Chess Programming




		Elektor January 1979 Author - David Levy Levy versus Chess 4.6, KAISSA, MacHack and Chess 4.7




		Personal Computer World May 1979 Author - David Levy Chess Programming advice




	Popular Mechanics May 1979 Author - Shelby Lyman Comparative Review - Fidelity Chess Challenger 10, Boris Master, Compuchess II, JS&A Computer Chess


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		Television & Home Video August 1979 Authors - A. Robertson & M. Stevens Review of Electronic Board Games




	BYTE September 1979 Author - Jeff Teeters Interface a Chessboard to a KIM-1 NEW




	Creative Computing September 1979 Author - Theodore Ehara The Levy Wager NEW




	Creative Computing October 1979 Author - Stephen Kimmel Tournament including CC7, Sargon, JS&A, Boris and Microchess 1.5


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		BYTE November 1979 Author - W D Maurer Alpha-Beta Pruning NEW