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a chess program by David Broughton written in Z80 assembly. Running on a North Star Horizon machine, Vega became runner up behind Sargon at the 2nd PCW-MCC tournament held in London November 1979. While Broughton was recruited by David Levy and Kevin O’Connell to work for Philidor Software on the Philidor project which lead to the commercial 6502 branch for the SciSys Chess Champion Mark V [2], Vega played a last time at the WMCCC 1980 in London [3].

External Links#

Chess Program#

• Vega’s ICGA Tournaments

Misc#

• Vega (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Vega from Wikipedia
• Vega program from Wikipedia

References#

1. ↑ Vega mission description, NSSDC NASA PD image, Vega program from Wikipedia
2. ↑ Chess Computers - The UK Story by Mike Watters
3. ↑ Vega’s ICGA Tournaments
4. ↑ London 1980 - Chess - Round 1 - Game 2 (ICGA Tournaments)

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