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Sargon II
The Spracklens made significant improvements on the original SARGON program and released Sargon II. In 1978 it tied for third at the ninth North American Computer Chess Championship despite being seeded ninth of 12 entries. Sargon finished only behind Belle and Chess 4.7, and defeated AWIT—running on a $5 million Amdahl mainframe—amazing the audience. That year they published a series of articles in BYTE on computer chess programming, stating "we think it would be nice if not everyone had to reinvent the wheel". Sargon II was ported to a variety of personal computers popular in the early 1980s. The game engine featured multiple levels of lookahead to make it more accessible to beginning chess players. BYTE in 1980 estimated that Sargon II had a 1500 rating at the highest tournament-time difficulty level, and speculated that it was the best chess program on sale, including dedicated devices.
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The Spracklens made significant improvements on the original SARGON program and released Sargon II. In 1978 it tied for third at the ninth North American Computer Chess Championship despite being seeded ninth of 12 entries. Sargon finished only behind Belle and Chess 4.7, and defeated AWIT—running on a $5 million Amdahl mainframe—amazing the audience. That year they published a series of articles in BYTE on computer chess programming, stating "we think it would be nice if not everyone had to reinvent the wheel".
Sargon II was ported to a variety of personal computers popular in the early 1980s. The game engine featured multiple levels of lookahead to make it more accessible to beginning chess players. BYTE in 1980 estimated that Sargon II had a 1500 rating at the highest tournament-time difficulty level, and speculated that it was the best chess program on sale, including dedicated devices.
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When was Sargon II released?
Sargon II was released on TBA.
What is the GameWorld (gS) score of Sargon II?
Sargon II has a GameWorld (gS) score of 67 out of 100, aggregated from Steam, IGDB, Metacritic and more.
What genre is Sargon II?
Sargon II is a Board Game, Strategy, Sports, Strategy game.
Who developed Sargon II?
Sargon II was developed by Dan and Kathleen Spracklen and published by Hayden Book Company.
Does Sargon II support multiplayer?
Sargon II supports single-player.
Where can I find guides, Korean patches and downloads for Sargon II?
On the Sargon II page at GameWorld you can browse community guides and download resources (Korean patches, trainers, save files and more), or upload your own.