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a chess program by Jeff Rollason whose development started in 1976. Initially written in Fortran for mainframe computers. Merlin already focused on a Swapping Off Material Analyzer (SOMA) approach of the whole board, which was later refined in Rollason’s Shogi program Shotest [2] and his later chess program Treebeard [3]. The micro-processor program Merlin X, basically a Z80 Assembly port to run on a Nascom 2, played the 4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship 1983 in London with 4 out of 9.

Namesakes#

• Merlin from Vienna University of Technology
• Merlin, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine by Balázs Jákó

External Links#

• Merlin from Wikipedia
• List of Arthurian characters from Wikipedia
• Prophetiae Merlini from Wikipedia
• Myrddin & Merlin: A Guide to the Early Evolution of the Merlin Legend from Arthuriana by Thomas Green
• The Coming of the King from Wikipedia
• Merlin (bird) from Wikipedia
• Merlin (comics) from Wikipedia
• Merlin the Magician (comics) from Wikipedia
• Merlin (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• If - Tea Break Over–Back on Your ‘Eads!, 1975, 1. Merlin the Magic Man, … YouTube Video

final line-up: Cliff Davies, Geoff Whitehorn, Dick Morrissey, Gabriel Magno, Walt Monaghan, Carlos Martinez

References#

1. ↑ Merlin, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), Wikimedia Commons
2. ↑ Jeff Rollason (2000). SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching. CG 2000
3. ↑ Jeff Rollason, Didzis Cirulis (2005). Treebeard - A new way to do Chess. AI Factory, Summer 2005

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