Merlin, a chess program by Jeff Rollason whose developed 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 [1] and his later chess program Treebeard [2]. The micro-processor program Merlin X [3], 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.
Merlin [4]

See also

• Arthurian legend
• Bird
• Comics
• Magic
• Myrddin
• Rasputin
• Treebeard

Namesakes

• Merlin from Vienna University of Technology
• Merlin, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine by Balázs Jákó ^[5]

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 - Merlin the Magic Man, 1975, YouTube Video ^[6]
  

References

1. ^ Jeff Rollason (2000). SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching. CG 2000, Word preprint
2. ^ Treebeard - A new way to do Chess - AI Factory newsletter article Summer 2005
3. ^ Jeff Rollason from Wikipedia
4. ^ Merlin, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)
5. ^ Merlin Chess Engine
6. ^ Merlin (TV series) from Wikipedia

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