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**Intelligent Chess Software** (Intelligent Software),
a series of experimental chess programs by [[Intelligent Software]], the software forge by [[David Levy]] and [[Kevin O’Connell]], initially based on [[Richard Lang|Richard Lang's]] [[Cyrus]] program, which was also incorporated inside the [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated computers]] [[Chess 2001]] and [[La Regence]]. 

Not to confused with the commercial [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_recorder|tape recorder]] computer [[Saitek|SciSys]] [[Intelligent Chess]] from 1980 <ref>[[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/intelligent_chess.html|Intelligent Chess]] from [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html|Chess Computer UK]] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>, developed by Levy's and O’Connell's earlier company [[Philidor Software]], //Intelligent Chess Software// was intended as test-bed and development version for later commercial distributions, and to play tournaments with an own-brand, similar to the [[Philidor]] program by Philidor Software. The //Intelligent// version written by Lang in [[Z80]] [[Assembly|assembly]] played the [[WMCCC 1984]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow|Glasgow]], and was virtually the same program as used in the dedicated [[L'Empereur]] which participated in the same event <ref>[[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html|Chess Computers - The UK Story]] from [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html|Chess Computer UK]] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>. Richard Lang and [[Mark Taylor]] are mentioned as authors of the [[6502]] based entry which participated the [[ACM 1984]]  <ref>[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6c9575|The Fifteenth ACM Computer Chess Championship, San Francisco California, October 7-9, 1984]], [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1984_15th_NACCC/1984%20NACCC.062303012.sm.pdf|pdf]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> for an [[Apple II|Apple IIe]], while [[David Broughton]] and Mark Taylor were the authors of the [[ACM 1985]] entry, running on an Apple IIe with an accelerated [[6502]] <ref>[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cef27|The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Denver Colorado, October 13-15, 1985]], [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1985_16th_NACCC/1985%20NACCC.062303067.sm.pdf|pdf]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.

=See also=
* [[Artificial Intelligence]] 
* [[Chess 2001]]
* [[Cyrus]]
* [[Cyrus 68K]]
* [[Intelligent Software]]
* [[La Regence]]
* [[L'Empereur]]
* [[Philidor]]
* [[SEX Algorithm]]

=External Links=
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=486|Intelligent Chess Software's ICGA Tournaments]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence|Intelligence from Wikipedia]]

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