Porting a Classic 1970s Chess Program to Modern Hardware
This is a project to bring the code from the book "Sargon a computer chess program" back to life in the modern era - billforsternz/retro-sargon
Porting a Classic 1970s Chess Program to Modern Hardware launched on May 20, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,437 of 4,813 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
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