Kathe and Dan Spracklen at the 9th ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Washington, DC
Title:
Kathe and Dan Spracklen at the 9th ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Washington, DC
Photographer:
Newborn, Monroe
Date:
1978
Credit Line:
Gift of Monroe Newborn
Accession:
102645408
Description:
Kathe and Dan Spracklen (shown here) were the husband and wife team who wrote Sargon. Like many early microprocessor-based chess programs, Sargon was written in assembly language. Sargon won the microcomputer chess tournament at the Second West Coast Computer Faire in 1978.