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BASIC,
an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a family of high-level programming languages, initially designed in 1963/1964 by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College ^[1] .

While early dialects worked in conjunction with a teletype command line interpreter, which could immediately interprete and print expressions, or run a program which lines were entered (or re-loaded from punch tape) with leading line numbers, later dialects were more sophisticated with respect to program structure, recursion, object-oriented and event-driven programming paradigms, and compiled executables.

There were a few didactic chess programs written in Basic, most notably a program by Dieter Steinwender published 1984 in Computerschach und Spiele ^[2] , Demoschach by Hans-Joachim Kraas and Günther Schrüfer ^[3] , and Minimax by Chrilly Donninger and Dieter Steinwender, which was later converted to WinBoard by Thomas McBurney ^[4] .

Basic Engines

Engines, written, or initially written in Basic, to expand this list, create a new engine page with the tag "basicengines".

• 1. Aristarch
  2. Bionic
  3. ChessBrainVB
  4. Chessmate
  5. Dimitri
  6. EtaBeta
  7. Fafner
  8. Gadget
  9. GambitVB
  10. Hiarcs
  11. Kanguruh
  12. LarsenVB
  13. Loper 82
  14. Mark Watson Chess
  15. Matilde
  16. Minimax (program)
  17. Neurone
  18. Numpty chess
  19. ProChess IT
  20. QCHESS
  21. Rabbit
  22. Rebel
  23. SD Chess
  24. Shiga
  25. Tenberg Basic Chess
  26. Warlord
  27. Zeus

Publications

• Michael McCann (1979). Basic Chess. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 48
• Craig A. Finseth (1980). Something is Missing (Implementing recursion and stacks in BASIC). The Best of Creative Computing Volume 3 » Recursion, Stack
• Rainer Bartel, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer (1985). Das große Computerschachbuch. Data Becker, ISBN 3-89011-117-3 (German), from amazon.de

Forum Posts

• Chess in BASIC? by William H. Rogers, CCC, August 28, 1998 » Point Value
• qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender by Mike Byrne, CCC, February 23, 2003
• Old chess program in BASIC (long post) by Walter Faxon, CCC, March 20, 2005
• GUI in Visual Basic by Edmund Moshammer, CCC, February 28, 2009 » GUI

External Links

Wikipedia

• BASIC
• List of BASIC dialects
• Altair BASIC
• Applesoft BASIC
• Atom Basic » Acorn Atom
• Basic4ppc
• BBC BASIC » BBC Micro ^[5]
• Commodore BASIC
• Dartmouth BASIC
• FreeBASIC
• FutureBASIC
• GFA BASIC
• GLBasic
• GW-BASIC
• HP BASIC
  HP time-shared BASIC
• Locomotive BASIC
• Microsoft BASIC
• NS Basic
• PowerBASIC
• PureBasic
• QBasic
• QuickBASIC
• Sinclair BASIC
• Tiny BASIC
• Turbo Basic
• Visual Basic
  VBScript
  Visual Basic .NET
  Visual Basic for Applications

Hiarcs

• HIARCS 3 (0.3) Source code, 1981 from HIARCS: Where It All Began by Mark Uniacke ^[6]
• HIARCS 5 (0.5) Source code, 1983 from Now Walking by Mark Uniacke

References

1. ^ BASIC manual. Dartmouth College Computation center, 1964 (pdf)
2. ^ qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender by Mike Byrne, CCC, February 23, 2003
3. ^ Rainer Bartel, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer (1985). Das große Computerschachbuch. Data Becker, ISBN 3-89011-117-3 (German)
4. ^ Minimax in BASIC converted to WinBoard by Thomas McBurney
5. ^ BBC Basic: the people's language | Alphr
6. ^ Free Chess Software Programs from HIARCS Chess Software for PC, Mac, Palm and Pocket PC

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