Eugenio Castillo Jiménez

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Eugenio Castillo Jiménez, a Spanish computer chess programmer, author of the chess program Eugen, and co-author of the chess program Chinito and the Chinese Chess program XieXie. Eugen was partially inspired by open source programs like Turbo Chess, GNU Chess, and Crafty. In 2004, it turned out Chinito contained parts of Crafty source and was therefore considered a clone. Eugenio's mens rea to use a readily board infrastructure from open source programs as base for own apparently original ideas and algorithms caused damage of his reputation in the computer chess scene. However, many who knew Eugenio from tournaments and personal communication found him an broad-minded computer chess programmer with lots of interesting ideas.

=Photos= Massy 2002, group photo with winners Eugenio Castillo and Pascal Tang

=Publications=
 * Eugenio Castillo Jiménez (1997). The Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1 » SCCC 1996
 * Eugenio Castillo Jiménez (1998). Report on the 5th Open Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4 » SCCC 1998
 * Eugenio Castillo Jiménez (2000). Report on the 6th Open Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1 » SCCC 1999

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: Where can I get the new program CHINITO ? by Eugenio Castillo, CCC, January 31, 2002
 * Re: "El Chinito" by Eugenio Castillo, CCC, October 22, 2003
 * Open letter by Eugenio Castillo (ELChinito team) ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, August 28, 2004

=External Links=
 * Meet the Authors by Ed Schröder
 * Eugenio Castillo Jimenez' ICGA Tournaments
 * XiangQi - XieXie | About Us
 * Federación Granadina de Ajedrez (Spanish)

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