Sargon (chess)

"SARGON" redirects here. For other uses, see Sargon (disambiguation).
Sargon
Book cover art that was also used in the cassette inlays
Developer(s)Dan Spracklen
Kathleen "Kathe" Spracklen
Release1978
Genre(s)Strategy

Sargon (stylized in all caps) is a line of chess-playing software for personal computers. The original Sargon from 1978 was written in assembly language by Dan and Kathleen "Kathe" Spracklen for the Z80-based Wavemate Jupiter II.[1]

  1. ^ Hendrie, Gardner (2005-03-02). "Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen" (PDF). Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2007-02-11.