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The original SARGON was written in Z-80 assembly language using the TDL Macro Assembler . In a move unusual for the time, complete source code was published in a book SARGON: A Computer Chess Program. SARGON was not widely available beyond the hacker community, but the Spracklens developed a version of the software for the Apple II computer called Sargon II, which was then ported to a variety of other personal computers popular in the early 1980s. The game engine featured multiple levels of lookahead to make it more accessible to beginning chess players - even though chess programs of the time could not defeat a chess masterA chess master is a chess player of such skill that he can nearly always beat players of the general strength found in chess clubs, who themselves typically can nearly always prevail against the level of play generally possessed by the average player in t, they were more than a match for most amateur players. Sargon II was released commercially through Hayden Software and followed by Sargon III in 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu.

After the demise of Hayden Software, later chess programs were also released under the name Sargon, including Sargon IV ( Spinnaker Software ), Sargon V ( ActivisionActivision ( NASDAQ:ATVI ) is a video and computer game publisher founded in 1979. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system, and it is now one of the largest video game publishers in the world, second only to Electronic A) and a CD-iThe CD-i (short for Compact Disc Interactive , which was released in 1991, was a multimedia system created primarily by Philips and to a lesser extent Sony, though only Philips proceeded to sell the system. Its initial price was around USD 400. It was cap title simply named Sargon Chess.

The name "Sargon" was taken from either of the historical kings Sargon of AkkadSargon ( 2334 BC 2279 BC) was the first person in recorded history to create an empire, or multi-ethnic state. His empire encompassed the region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and part of what is present-day Turkey. His capital was Agade in Akkad. or Sargon of Assyria. (Ironically, neither ruler would have been able to play chess since it was not invented until long after their reigns.) The name was originally written entirely in capitals since early computer operating systems such as CP/MCP/M C ommand P rocessor for M icrocomputers was an operating system for Intel 8080/ 85 and Zilog Z80 based microcomputers. It was created by Digital Research, Inc. founded by Gary Kildall. The combination of CP/M and S-100 bus computers patterned on the did not support lower-case text (nor files with names more than six letters long, as with ADVENT).