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a chess engine by [[Don Dailey]] and [[Larry Kaufman]] affiliated with [[Julio Kaplan|Julio Kaplan's]] [[Heuristic Software]], and like its predecessor [[Heuristic Alpha]] also written in [[C]] and never commercially released under its original name. Titan, intern also dubbed [[Mini]], was a kind of experimental development version and testbed of new ideas for the optimized [[x86]] [[Assembly|assembly]] [[Socrates]] versions.
Titan won the [[ACM 1993]] on a [[x86|486]] [[IBM PC|PC]], leaving [[Cray Blitz]], [[StarTech|*Tech]] and [[HitechHiTech|B*Hitech]] behind, but was "traded" for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates_II Socrates II] <ref>[[Larry Kaufman]] ('''1993'''). ''PC Software''. [[Computer Chess Reports]] 1993, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 8-9</ref> , soon sold to [[Electronic Arts]] for their game AI of the mass-market entry [[Kasparov's Gambit]]. Titan influenced the commercial Socrates '''3.0''', which was released in 1993 not by Heuristic Software, but through a company called MDI <ref>[[Larry Kaufman]] ('''1993'''). ''PC Software''. [[Computer Chess Reports]] 1993, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 9</ref> , and further started a academic career thanks to [[Don Dailey#MITConnection|MIT connections]] yielding to [[Star Socrates|*Socrates]].
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