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[[FILE:Artus2.jpg|border|right|thumb| Statue of King Arthur <ref>Statue of King Arthur, designed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Albrecht Dürer] and cast by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Vischer_the_Elder Peter Vischer the Elder], early 16th century, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur Arthur from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]

'''Arthur''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] compatible, portable chess engine by [[Walter Ravenek]]. Developed in the 90s, Arthur had an own [[GUI|graphical user interface]] for the [[Apple]] [[Macintosh]] computer.

=Tournament Play=
Arthur played various [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships]] with strong results, for instance becoming third at the [[DOCCC 1998]] behind [[The King]] and [[CilkChess]]. It further played multiple [[Aegon Tournaments]] in the 90s, the [[IPCCC 1994]], the [[WMCCC 1997]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Paris] and the [[WCCC 1999]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn Paderborn].

=Descriptions=
from the [[ICGA]] tournament site <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=25 Arthur's ICGA Tournaments]</ref>

==1997==
Arthur is an amateur chess program that has been developed as a literate program, i.e., with description and source code integrated in a single document. The complete print-out is some 500 pages. The program uses conventional [[Search|search]] techniques, with some specific [[Extensions|extensions]] developed by the author. The program is knowledge intensive and plays mainly positional games. Arthur has been a regular guest in the AEGON Man vs. Machine tournaments and the Open Dutch Computer Chess Championships. Over the last three years it has finished between the top amateur programs.

==1999==
Arthur is a strong Dutch amateur program. It has finished as the best amateur program in the [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Open Dutch Computer Chess Championships]] for the last three years, performing reasonably well against commercial programs. The program consists of a platform independent chess engine, which is connected to a [[GUI|graphical user interface]] for the [[Macintosh]]. A [[WinBoard]] version will be available in the near future. Arthur is quite capable tactically, but it tends to play a positional game, when given the chance.

=See also=
* [[Eowyn]]

=Publications=
* [[Raymond Smullyan]] ('''2010'''). ''[http://store.doverpublications.com/0486474356.html King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles]''. [http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-mathematics.html Dover Books on Mathematics]

=Forum Posts=
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/DIrf0yWFh-c/hwz26K3gqHAJ Re: Computer Judgment] by [[Walter Ravenek]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 25, 1995
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=34315 Re: Dutch CCC - Arthur on 300MHz G3 2nd weekend] by Richard A. Fowell, [[CCC]], November 29, 1998

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=25 Arthur's ICGA Tournaments]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_%28disambiguation%29 Arthur (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur Arthur (name) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur King Arthur from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arthurian_characters List of Arthurian characters from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_%28disambiguation%29 King Arthur (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_of_the_King The Coming of the King from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/index.html Arthuriana] by [http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/contact.htm Thomas Green]
* [http://www.walestheosophy.co.uk/avalondinasemrys.htm Theosophy Avalon / Ynys Witrin - The Theosophy Wales King Arthur Pages - Vortigern's Stronghold Dinas Emrys]

=References=
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