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a chess program by [[Vladimir Rybinkin]] and [[Yuri Shpeer]] written in [[8086]] [[Assembly]] to run under [[MS-DOS]] on [[IBM PC|PCs]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=279436 Re: Mirage chess by Yuri Shpeer & Vladimir Rybinkin] by [[Sergei Markoff|Sergei S. Markoff]], [[CCC]], January 25, 2003</ref>, famous for its at times discontinuous, possibly [[Depth#FractionalPlies|fractional]] [[Depth|depth]] increments in [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/24sL-_prZzw/7vEW3Fe6v9sJ Re;Iterative Deepening] by [[Tom King]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], June 27, 1997</ref>.
During the mid 90s, Mirage was some years commercial, and later became freeware <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=88342 New Mirage] by [[Đorđe Vidanović]], [[CCC]], January 13, 2000</ref>.
In the late 90s some code units from Mirage were incorporated into [[Centaur]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=57 Centaur's ICGA Tournaments]</ref> by [[Victor Vikhrev]] and [[Alexey Manjakhin]], which further evolved to the [[Dragon (Chess Assistant)|Dragon]] analysis engine of [[ChessOK|Convekta's]] [[Chess Assistant]] database <ref>[http://chessok.com/?page_id=19894 Chess Assistant] - [[ChessOK]]</ref> <ref>[http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=26:39751-20#308 Заставить работать машину клиента! Конференция] by [[20Vladimir Rybinkin]] - , [http://forum.ixbt.com/ Конференция iXBT.com], September 01, 2009</ref>. Mirage was further incorporated inside a Russian [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computer]] [[Debut-M]] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K1810BM86 K1810BM86] processor <ref>[http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7967 DEBYUT-M] by IvenGO, [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], July 11, 2016</ref>.
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