Deep BASIC, (Deep Basic)
a 16-bit chess program by Thomas McBurney, written in QuickBASIC 4.5 to run under MS-DOS. The development started in December 2002, and was the author's first attempt at a chess program, released as open source in May 2003. Deep BASIC comes with an own GUI and features alpha-beta with quiescence search, and an opening book. It considers material to decide about lazy evaluation, and otherwise takes positional evaluation terms under account, such as mobility, pawn structure and king safety 1.
Screenshot
Deep BASIC Screen 2.
See also
Forum Posts
- New Version of Deep BASIC by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, August 25, 2003
- European ICT magazine article: QB64 and Deep Basic Chess by Antti Ylikoski, QB64.org Forum, February 26, 2018
External Links
- Deep BASIC (Wayback Machine)
- Deep Basic : Thomas McBurney : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
References
deepbasic.zip\CHESS8.BAS↩︎
Screenshot from Deep BASIC (Wayback Machine)↩︎