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**EdChess**, (Ed Chess, Ed's Chess, Chess!)
a  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware|shareware]] chess program for the [[IBM PC]], released in 1992 by //EdTech Associates Inc.// running under [[MS-DOS|DOS]]. The program has been developed by [[David Hendricks]] supported by [[John T. Bell]] <ref>[[https://www.pcorner.com/list/GAMES/EDCV199.ZIP/EDCV199.DOC/|The Programmer's Corner » EDCV199.DOC]]</ref> over a period of three years, written entirely with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C|Aztec]] [[C]] 4.1d <ref>[[https://www.pcorner.com/list/GAMES/EDCV199.ZIP/EDCV199.DOC/|The Programmer's Corner » EDCV199.DOC]]</ref>. EdChess features a [[Graphics Programming#Semigraphics|semigraphics board]], drawing [[Squares|squares]] and [[Pieces#ASCIIArt|pieces]] using IBM's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437|special character set]], and applies [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] within an [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] loop.

=Screenshot=
|| [[image:EdChess.jpg link="https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ed_Chess_1994"]] ||
|| EdChess emulated via [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox#Non-commercial_notable_uses|browser-based DosBox]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]] <ref>[[https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ed_Chess_1994|Ed Chess : Free Streaming]] : [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]]</ref> ||

=Forum Posts=
* [[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/HXzkvd9z65w/-knXVsij3T8J|Shareware chessprograms]] by Andreas Kyritz, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], December 06, 1993
* [[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/oqQKJVIu-tA/Zv1DOUnco-gJ|Question on Repitition rule]] by Troy Johnson,  [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], November 09, 1994
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=358125|Nostalgia drives me to install EdChess and watch it play itself]] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], April 02, 2004
* [[http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8479|EdChess]] by [[Fernando Villegas]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], July 06, 2017

=External Links=
* [[https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ed_Chess_1994|Ed Chess : Free Streaming]] : [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]]
* [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/chess____| Chess! (Ed Chess) for DOS (1992)]] - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobyGames|MobyGames]]
* [[http://www.worldcat.org/title/eds-chess/oclc/31706355|Ed's chess (Computer file, 1992) [WorldCat.org] ]]
* [[https://www.pcorner.com/list/GAMES/EDCV199.ZIP/EDCV199.DOC/|The Programmer's Corner » EDCV199.DOC]]
* [[https://youtu.be/D41pYzEXNwI|Ed Chess gameplay (PC Game, 1994)]], 

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