Sargon 1978 UCI Available

[rcmaddox]

Bill Forster, author of the Tarrasch GUI, has released a UCI version of Sargon, the well known program from the Spracklens.

I had a copy of Sargon in the early 80's running on my Commodore VIC-20, using a black and white television for a monitor! It was my first chess software that wasn't in a dedicated chess computer.

So here ya go:

Main Tarrasch GUI Website ---->> http://www.triplehappy.com/
Link to Releveant Blog Post ---->> https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/

[rcmaddox]

I should add that I've tested the program, it runs fine and searches about 8 ply on my modest laptop at fast time controls. It will beat you if you don't pay attention. It beats me even when I do.

[AdminX]

Thank you for this find. Yet another oldie I can add to my collection. Bill Forster has done a wonderful job converting this!

[mehmet123]

Great Gift. Sargon has a very important place in the chess computer world.

[Sergio Martinez]

Thank you very much!

Sargon is a well known chess program and oldie. It would be nice to see more oldies in uci

[Paloma]

I see neither on the whole page nor under Download a Sargon Engine

[AdminX]

I see neither on the whole page nor under Download a Sargon Engine

https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon/releases

[Thomas Lagershausen]

Thx alot.

It is a big gift to travel in the past.

I hope we will see more of this historic stuff because it is so much fun to play with this.

[JohnW]

Bill Forster, author of the Tarrasch GUI, has released a UCI version of Sargon, the well known program from the Spracklens.

I had a copy of Sargon in the early 80's running on my Commodore VIC-20, using a black and white television for a monitor! It was my first chess software that wasn't in a dedicated chess computer.

So here ya go:

Main Tarrasch GUI Website ---->> http://www.triplehappy.com/
Link to Releveant Blog Post ---->> https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/

Is this really the same Sargon that ran on the Commodore VIC-20? I had the cartridge for that as well but it was Sargon 2.

[AdminX]

Bill Forster, author of the Tarrasch GUI, has released a UCI version of Sargon, the well known program from the Spracklens.

I had a copy of Sargon in the early 80's running on my Commodore VIC-20, using a black and white television for a monitor! It was my first chess software that wasn't in a dedicated chess computer.

So here ya go:

Main Tarrasch GUI Website ---->> http://www.triplehappy.com/
Link to Releveant Blog Post ---->> https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/

Is this really the same Sargon that ran on the Commodore VIC-20? I had the cartridge for that as well but it was Sargon 2.

From the 'Readme.md' file:

"The book "Sargon, a computer chess program", by Dan and Kathe Spracklen published by Hayden in 1978 presents the source code to the classic early chess program Sargon in Z80 assembly language. This is a project to bring the code presented in the book back to life in the modern era."