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'''Shy''',<br/>
a mainframe chess program by [[Juha Kasanen]], [[Mika Korhonen]] and [[Timo Saari]], written in [[Algol]]. Shy played the [[WCCC 1983]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York], where it ran on a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems [Burroughs B-5500|Burroughs B7800/B7900]] at computing center, [[University of Helsinki]], a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer mainframe] using [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine stack machine] instruction sets with dense instruction syllables and 48-bit data words <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=191935 Re: Chess problem solving] by [[Timo Saari]], [[CCC]], October 05, 2001</ref>, optimized for running [[Algol]] extremely well, using simple compilers <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems Burroughs large systems from Wikipedia]</ref>. The program is mentioned in the WCCC booklet with 30 KiB code size using 60 KiB of [[Data|data]], [[Search|searching]] about 350 [[Nodes per Second|nodes per second]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6c8af8 The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship] (labeled 22nd ACM), [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1983_WCCC/1983-%20WCCC.062303061.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_36_C.pdf pdf] from [[Danny Kopec]]</ref>. Shy drew from [[Patsoc]], lost versus [[CHAOS]], [[Bobby]] and [[Phoenix]], and won from [[Sfinks]]. According to postings in [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]] <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/msg/d6da2b3b0fbcb50e Re: Byte Chess 0.5 finally available. From Byte Magazine 1978] by I Forget, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], June 02, 2005</ref> <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.pascal.misc/browse_frm/thread/13268077738fa33 Update for Byte Chess 0.5] by I Forget, [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.pascal.misc/topics comp.lang.pascal.misc], June 12, 2005</ref>, Shy and the Austrian [[Merlin]] were based on the [[Pascal]] source of [[Chess 0.5]] by [[Larry Atkin]] and [[Peter W. Frey]] as published 1978 in [[Byte Magazine]] <ref>[http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/author/1442.en.html Larry R. Atkin Magazine articles]</ref>.
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