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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * Caesar** || [[image:César_(13667960455).jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C%C3%A9sar_%2813667960455%29.jpg"]] ||~ || **Caesar**, an early microcomputer chess program written by [[John Lowe]], apparently in [[Z80]] [[Assembly|assembly]]. Caesar played the [[European MCC 1981|2nd European Microcomputer Chess Championship]] in 1981, and the [[European MCC 1983|4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship]] 1983 in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London|London]], running on a [[TRS-80]] <ref> [[Tony Harrington]] (**1983**). //Chess Tournament - 4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship//. [[Personal Computer World]], [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html|December 1983]], [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_December_1983.pdf|pdf]] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>. || || Caesar <ref>The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusculum_portrait|Tusculum portrait]], perhaps the only surviving sculpture of Caesar made during his lifetime, around 44 BC. Image by [[https://www.flickr.com/people/24266175@N00|Gautier Poupeau]], April 06, 2014, Exhibition at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais|Grand Palais]] "[[http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/i-augustus-emperor-rome|Augustus I, emperor of Rome]]" (March 19 - July 13, 2014), [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en|CC BY 2.0]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons|Wikimedia Commons]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar|Julius Caesar from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =See also= * [[Brutus]] * [[Caligula]] * [[Various Classifications#GivenName|Given Name]] * [[Nero]] * [[Various Classifications#Nobility|Nobility]] [[#HorizonEffect]] =Horizon Effect= || [[image:http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/chessdiag.php?fen=2kr4/3nR3/p2B1p2/1p1p1Bp1/1P1P3p/2P4P/P5P1/6K1%20w%20-%20-&size=large&coord=no&cap=no&stm=yes&fb=no&theme=classic&color1=E3CEAA&color2=635147&color3=000000]] ||~ || During the last round game at the [[European MCC 1983|EMCC 1983]], [[Chess 2001]] vs. Caesar, to the delight of its operator [[David Levy]], Chess 2001 played 32.Kh2 leaving Caesar in [[Zugzwang]] with a drastic demonstration of the [[Horizon Effect|horizon effect]]. Instead of facing the inevitable and giving up the defence of the knight, Black tries to save it by sacrificing no less than four pawns: 32... g4 33.Bxg4 f5 34.Bxf5 a5 35.bxa5 b4 36.cxb4 Rg8 <ref>[[Frederic Friedel]] (**1984**). //The European Microcomputer-Chess Championship - 6th PCW//. [[ICGA Journal#7_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1]]</ref> || || 2kr4/3nR3/p2B1p2/1p1p1Bp1/1P1P3p/2P4P/P5P1/6K1 w - - 0 32 ||~ ||^ || =External Links= * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar|Julius Caesar from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28disambiguation%29|Caesar (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28title%29|Caesar (title) from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_%28given_name%29|Caesar (given name) from Wikipedia]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="Caesar" component="backlinks" limit="20"]] **[[Engines|Up one Level]]**