Case study

Sargon III: recovering move order and its opening-library encoding

Studies the Apple II version of Sargon III through a partially commented disassembly, focusing on its move generator and opening-library encoding. Two C utilities help decode and rebuild openings whose one-byte moves index the generator's move order.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2024-10-07
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Limits: The listing is only partially commented.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{sargon-iii-disassembly-case,
  title = {{Sargon III: recovering move order and its opening-library encoding}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Oric4ever/sargon3_disassembly}},
  url = {https://github.com/Oric4ever/sargon3_disassembly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/sargon-iii-disassembly-case/}}
}

Plain text

Sargon III: recovering move order and its opening-library encoding. https://github.com/Oric4ever/sargon3_disassembly (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/sargon-iii-disassembly-case/

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README.md GitHub · Oric4ever/sargon3_disassembly · Revision 611b296