Novag Forte

Edit 0 2 …
Home * Engines * Novag Forte
forteb.jpg
Novag Forte, (Constellation Forte, Super Forte)
a series of dedicated chess computers by Novag with 6502 programs by David Kittinger. Along with Novag Expert, the Forte was successor of the Super Constellation, released as Constellation Forte A in 1986, Super Forte in 1987, Super Forte B in 1989 and Super Forte C in 1990. The Fortes had plastic sensory boards with pressure sensors, a Dot-matrix display and 16 LEDs for file and rank square indication.
Constellation Forte B [1]

Very Selective Search

According to Thorsten Czub, the Constellation Forte had a reduced weightiness of the pre scan heuristics (PSH) [2] [3] compared to the Super Constellation. A sophisticated selective search, dubbed Very Selective Search (VSS), was introduced with the Super Expert B and Super Forte B [4].

Quote

by Larry Kaufman from The Rexchess Story [5] :
The next step forward came when Novag's Dave Kittinger, Don and I jointly worked out how to do an effective selective search program. Dave put these ideas into the Super Expert B and Super Forte B, while Don and I put them into Rex.

See also


Publications


Forum Posts


External Links


References

  1. ^ Novag Constellation Forte B from Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage by Kurt Kispert (German)
  2. ^ PSH from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
  3. ^ Oldie-Artikel 3 by Thorsten Czub (German)
  4. ^ Novag Super Forte B from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
  5. ^ Larry Kaufman (1989). The Rexchess Story. Computer Chess Reports 1989, pp. 8

What links here?

Page Date Edited
Aegon 1987 Jan 22, 2017
Aegon 1988 Jan 22, 2017
Aegon 1990 Mar 26, 2017
Aegon 1991 Mar 26, 2017
Engines Mar 10, 2018
Novag Aug 19, 2015
Novag Expert Aug 3, 2013
Novag Forte Aug 3, 2013
Novag X Jan 7, 2016
Rex Jan 7, 2016
RexChess Dec 7, 2016
USOCCC 1986 Dec 1, 2017
USOCCC 1987 Nov 30, 2017

Up one level