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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * Vega** || [[image:239px-Vega_in_lyra.svg.png link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega"]] ||~ || **Vega**, a chess program by [[David Broughton]] written in [[Z80]] [[Assembly|assembly]]. Running on a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorthStar_Horizon|North Star Horizon]] machine, Vega became runner up behind [[Sargon]] at the [[PCW-MCC 1979|2nd PCW-MCC]] tournament held in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London|London]] November 1979. While Broughton was recruited by [[David Levy]] and [[Kevin O’Connell]] to work for [[Philidor Software]] on the [[Philidor]] project which lead to the commercial [[6502]] branch for the [[Saitek|SciSys]] [[Chess Champion Mark V]] <ref>[[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html|Chess Computers - The UK Story]] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>, Vega played a last time at the [[WMCCC 1980]] in London <ref>[[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=463|Vega's ICGA Tournaments]]</ref>. || || Vega in the constellation [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra|Lyra]] <ref>Location of Vega in the constellation [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra|Lyra]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega|Vega from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =Selected Games= [[WMCCC 1980]], round 1: [[Rook (Program)|Rook 4.0]] - [[Vega|Vega 1.7]] <ref>[[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=13&round=1&id=2|London 1980 - Chess - Round 1 - Game 2 (ICGA Tournaments)]]</ref> [[code]] [Event "WMCCC 1980"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "1980.09.04"] [Round "1"] [White "Rook 4.0"] [Black "Vega 1.7"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Kd2 Qxd4+ 4.Ke1 e5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Be3 Qxd1+ 7.Rxd1 Bg4 8.Be2 Be6 9.Bb5 g6 10.Nxe4 Rd8 11.Bxc6+ bxc6 12.Rxd8+ Kxd8 13.Nf3 Bg7 14.Nc5 Bxa2 15.Kd2 Bd5 16.Nb7+ Kc8 17.Na5 a6 18.Ne1 Kd7 19.Nd3 f5 20.Nc5+ Kc8 21.f3 e4 22.c4 Bf7 23.fxe4 fxe4 24.Nxc6 Bxc4 25.Na7+ Kb8 26.Nc6+ Ka8 27.Rc1 Bd3 28.b3 Bb5 29.Nxe4 Nf6 30.Nxf6 Bxf6 31.Rc5 Kb7 32.Na5+ Kc8 33.Nc6 Kd7 34.Nd4 c6 35.Kc3 Re8 36.Bg5 Bg7 37.Rc4 Bxc4 38.Kxc4 Re4 39.Be3 Rxe3 40.Nf3 a5 41.Kc5 Rxb3 42.Nd4 Rc3+ 43.Kb6 Bxd4+ 44.Kxa5 Rd3 45.Kb4 c5+ 46.Kc4 Rd2 47.h3 Rxg2 48.Kd5 Rf2 49.Ke4 Kd6 50.h4 h5 51.Kd3 Rf4 52.Kc4 Be5+ 53.Kd3 Kd5 54.Ke3 c4 55.Kd2 Re4 56.Kc2 Rf4 57.Kd2 Kd4 58.Ke2 c3 59.Kd1 Kd3 60.Ke1 Bd4 61.Kd1 Rf1# 0-1 [[code]] =See also= * [[Various Classifications#Astronomy|Astronomy]] =External Links= ==Chess Program== * [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=463|Vega's ICGA Tournaments]] ==Misc== * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_%28disambiguation%29|Vega (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega|Vega from Wikipedia]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program|Vega program from Wikipedia]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="Vega" component="backlinks" limit="30"]] **[[Engines|Up one Level]]**