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[[toc]] **[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * Steve Stuart Chess** **Steve Stuart Chess**, an early [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor|microprocessor]] chess program written in 1977/78 by [[Stephen Stuart]] in [[Assembly]] for a home-made metal-box computer system <ref>[[Rob van Son]] (**2011**). //De Assyrische krijgsman die vaak won!// (Dutch) [[http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/10-2011,%20Rob%20van%20Son,%20De%20Assyrische%20krijgsman%20die%20vaak%20won.pdf|pdf]] hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]] </ref> with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signetics_2650|Signetics 2650]] processor. Stuart was challenged for a microcomputer chess program by an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_Corporation|Amdahl]] engineer to the Amdahl Computer Club, where he was member <ref>[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6d6b8e|Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]] 1977 by [[Douglas Penrod]], Letter of [[Stephen Stuart]] pg. 12, Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]], [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-0.Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter/Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter.1977.062303031.sm.pdf|pdf]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. Steve Stuart Chess played the [[MCCT 1978|Second West Coast Computer Faire Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] in March 1978 in the "less than 8K of memory class b" <ref>[[Larry Wagner]] (**1978**). //Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament//. [[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281|Silicon Gulch Gazette]], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9</ref>. =Selected Games= [[Compucolor Chess]] vs. Steve Stuart Chess from the [[MCCT 1978]] during the Second [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Computer_Faire|West Coast Computer Faire]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose_Convention_Center|San Jose Convention Center]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California|San Jose, California]], March 1978 <ref>Editor (**1978**). //Some San Jose Color//. [[Personal Computing#2_9|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9]], pp. 82</ref> [[code]] [Event "MCCT 1978"] [Site "San Jose, US-CA"] [Date "1978.03.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Compucolor Chess"] [Black "Steve Stuart Chess"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 d5 2.Bg5 Nf6 3.e3 Nc6 4.Bb5 Bf5 5.Bxc6+ bxc6 6.Bxf6 exf6 7.f4 Bb4+ 8.Kf2 Rb8 9.Qh5 Qd7 10.h4 O-O 11.a4 Rfe8 12.g4 Bxg4 13.Qxg4 Qxg4 14.e4 Qxf4+ 15.Kg2 Qxe4+ 16.Nf3 Qe2+ 17.Kg1 Qxf3 18.Rh2 Re1# 0-1 [[code]] =Publications= * [[Larry Wagner]] (**1978**). //Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament//. [[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281|Silicon Gulch Gazette]], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9 * Editor (**1978**). //Some San Jose Color//. [[Personal Computing#2_9|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9]], pp. 82 ยป [[MCCT 1978]], [[Compucolor Chess]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="Steve Stuart Chess" component="backlinks" limit="20" ]] **[[Engines|Up one Level]]**