Socrates II is a
chess program
In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards as strongest.
A chess engine is usually a back end with a command-line interface with ...
that, in 1993, won the 23rd
North American Computer Chess Championship. It ran on an
IBM PC
The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a tea ...
. This was the first and only time that a stock
microcomputer
A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor. The computer also includes memory and input/output (I/O) circuitry together mounted on a printed circuit board (P ...
won this event, finishing ahead of past winners
Cray Blitz and
HiTech. The authors,
Don Dailey and
Larry Kaufman, renewed their collaboration twenty years later to create the
Komodo chess engine.
See also
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Kasparov's Gambit
''Kasparov's Gambit'', or simply ''Gambit'', is a chess playing computer program created by Heuristic Software and published by Electronic Arts in 1993 based on Socrates II, the only winner of the North American Computer Chess Championship running ...
References
ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
Chess software
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